The Three Schools of CCO Thinking: Interactive Dialogue and Systematic Comparison

Dennis Schoeneborn; Steffen Blaschke; François Cooren; Robert D. McPhee; David Seidl; James R. Taylor

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The Three Schools of CCO Thinking: Interactive Dialogue and Systematic Comparison

Dennis Schoeneborn, Steffen Blaschke, François Cooren, Robert D. McPhee, David Seidl, James R. Taylor

Human Communication, Hugh Downs School of

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	285-316
Number of pages	32
Journal	Management Communication Quarterly
Volume	28
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318914527000
State	Published - May 2014

Keywords

communication as constitutive of organizations
organization theory
organizational communication
paradigms

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Strategy and Management

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