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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The theoretical roots of CCO
Organization Unit
Authors
  • François Cooren
  • David Seidl
Editors
  • Joëlle Basque
  • Nicolas Bencherki
  • Timothy Kuhn
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle Routledge Handbook of the Communicative Constitution of Organizations
Series Name Routledge Studies in Communication, Organization, and Organizing
ISBN 9780367480707
Place of Publication London and New York
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Page Range 27 - 46
Date 2022
Abstract Text In this chapter, we present the various theories that have influenced or even defined the three schools of CCO thinking for the past 30 years. Regarding the four-flows model, proposed by Robert McPhee and Pamela Zaug, we describe the key role Anthony Giddens’s Structuration Theory has played since its inception. Regarding the roots of the system of self-referential communication systems proposed by Niklas Luhmann, we highlight the role of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology, Maturana and Varela’s theory of self-referential systems and George Spencer-Brown’s observation theory. Finally, the theoretical roots of the Montreal school, initiated by James R. Taylor’s text/conversation model, are introduced through the presentation of some key authors’ works, namely pragmatists such as John Dewey and Charles Sanders Peirce, but also John Langshaw Austin, Harold Garfinkel, Algirdas Julien Greimas, and Bruno Latour. Beyond their differences, we also insist on what unifies the theoretical foundations of these three respective schools of thought.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.4324/9781003224914-3
Other Identification Number merlin-id:22051
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