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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The Three Schools of CCO Thinking: Interactive Dialogue and Systematic Comparison
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Dennis Schoeneborn
  • Steffen Blaschke
  • François Cooren
  • James R Taylor
  • David Seidl
  • Robert D McPhee
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Management Communication Quarterly
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd.
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0893-3189
Volume 28
Number 2
Page Range 285 - 316
Date 2014
Abstract Text The idea of the communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) has gained considerable attention in organizational communication studies. This rather heterogeneous theoretical endeavor is driven by three main schools of thought: the Montreal School of Organizational Communication, the Four-Flows Model (based on Giddens’s Structuration Theory), and Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems. In this article, we let proponents of all three schools directly speak to each other in form of an interactive dialogue that is structured around guiding questions addressing the epistemological, ontological, and methodological dimension of CCO as a theoretical paradigm. Based on this dialogue, we systematically compare the three schools of CCO thinking and identify common grounds as well as key differences.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1177/0893318914527000
Other Identification Number merlin-id:10471
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