Discursivity, Relationality and Materiality in , Mills, Cooren Paperback..

Name: Discursivity, Relationality and Materiality in , Mills, Cooren Paperback..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The field of organisational communication has been rapidly transforming in the wake of the linguistic and discursive turns that have been sweeping across the social sciences since the mid-eighties. These \u2018turns\u2019 have prompted organisational communication scholars to look more closely at how they think about communication and its relationship to the organisation and the process of organizing. What has emerged from these reflections is a perspective that proposes communication is not merely something that happens in organisations but is the heart of organizing and therefore actually constitutes the organisation. This perspective, which embraces several sub-threads, is now commonly referred to as the CCO (Communication as Constitutive of Organisation) perspective. This is itself evolving as scholars come to realize that organizing does not just occur at the discursive level. It is inextricably coupled to the material and relational aspects of work \u2013 the discourse mutually.