As work and organizational realities become increasingly “post-bureaucratic,” the conventional stable bases of a person’s authority—their position, their expertise, or acquiescence subordinate—are eroding. This evolution calls us to revise our understanding authority, consider more deeply how it is achieved in contexts that are both fluid fragmented. Building on six-month autoethnography consulting assignment, we show authority practical, relational, situated performance. It exists tension...

How does an organization act? Can it be considered actor on its own or need organizational members who act behalf? We would like to suggest our take the issue by suggesting a genuinely communicative approach of action. Using narratology AJ Greimas make apparent in talk some process philosophy’s tenets, we show how organizations being attributed actions. The detailed study meetings from community serves as empirical grounding. that through imbrication mandates and programs action logic...

Where do new organizations come from, and how they persist? Based on an ethnographic study of two creative hubs in Amsterdam, which independent workers rented studio space, we show space plays a role constituting making them last. Focusing challenging moments the development these hubs, propose that understood as material assemblage, participates providing endurance to organizing practices. It does so because practice reflexively account for each other. In other words, may constrain or...

This article contributes to the discursive and interactional study of strategizing by drawing attention communicative practices through which strategy progressively materializes itself. Drawing on interactions between partners members a community-based organization participating in strategic planning exercise, our reveals that communication plays key role initial formulation strategy, is, deciding issues matter most for organization. We identify four concerns gradually become strategic:...

Organizational communication theory and research tends to assume the practices of organizational “members” are relevant study phenomena, without reflecting on how those members were identified in first place. This issue is particularly perspectives that view as constitutive organizations because they may take very object seek explain—the organization—as starting point when identifying pertinent informants. We provide a communicational perspective membership by from communicative events,...

While organisational communication research has traditionally limited talk to human beings, a trend within the Montreal School (TMS) of Communicational Constitution Organizations (CCO) perspective acknowledges that 'things do things with words' as well, and criticises 'bifurcation nature' into two distinct realms: materiality discourse. However, due preference for studying discourse, many TMS studies still may give impression only spokespeople can make objects talk. This paper uses data from...

Organization and management are the perpetual, perpetually fraught resisted, ordering of sense experience. However, banning senses into outside thought, organizational analysis, was – to a large degree still is default mostly implicit unquestioned mode thinking studying organization management. Introducing special issue on ‘The Senses in Management Research Education’, this essay historicizes contextualizes neglect senses, dwells upon possible reasons for keeping sensory at bay discusses...

How does agency emerge eventfully in processes of organizational becoming? This article aims to address this question by developing a process theory based on Gilbert Simondon’s philosophical writings individuation as communicative phenomenon and Brian Massumi’s affect. views an affective force, expressed event, that governs the transition from one another, producing enhanced ability act potentially leading collective transindividuation is essential becoming. In turn, not only offers novel...

On 24 January 2017, the Trump administration tried to censor various science-related federal agencies, most notably National Park Service. This case study presents emergence of “alternative” Service Twitter accounts that subverted ban and explores how “rogue rangers” share in resist organizational authority through communication practices we interpret as dis/attributing communicative action figures do so. Through qualitative analysis textual non-textual data pertaining accounts, demonstrate...

Property is pervasive, and yet we organization scholars rarely discuss it. When do, think of it as a black-boxed concept to explain other phenomena, rather than studying in its own right. This may be because tend limit their understanding property legal definition, emphasize control exclusion defining criteria. essay wishes crack open the black box explore many ways which possessive relations are established. They achieved through work, take place make sense signs, invoked into existence our...

In this paper, we suggest that the Montreal School (TMS) tradition of organizational communication offers a fruitful analytical framework allows us to better take into account way people practically deal with plurilingual situations as they go on their daily activities and contribute shaping organizations. We identify six core features TMS show power in studying interactions. TMS, argue, is conceptually well equipped reveal ways which multiple tongues are dealt everyday settings uncover...

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes 1. An example I find particularly infuriating, perhaps because it is so close home for me, that of Jacques Brassard, the former Québec minister Public security. After Latour's conference at HEC Montréal in April 2008, Brassard wrote a satirical piece newspaper Le Quotidien, which he referred ideas about participation things social as “gibberish an alleged philosopher” and “stupid decrees,” sarcastically claiming “anti-humanism” would...

Different perspectives on organizations have alternatively sorted them the side of social / human linguistic or that material non-human technical, reducing question what an organization may be to attempts (re)connect these two realms. Literature adopting a relational view, however, has offered way out this opposition, by embracing multiplicity beings make up organizations. We extend approach engaging with French philosopher Étienne Souriau’s discussion modes existence suggest are “synaptic,”...

Ce texte propose que l'adoption d'une version particulière des théories dites « de l'affect », encore peu populaires en communication organisationnelle, permet surmonter le dilemme l'action organisationnelle – est-ce l'individu qui agit ou l'organisation ? non pas résolvant mais permettant une compréhension totalement différente la constitution et collectifs. En partant du préindividuel terme développé par philosophe français Gilbert Simondon plutôt l'individu, il est possible d'étudier les...

Abstract Dialogue is about forgoing control and possession when interacting with the Other. In comparison, notion of instrumentality appears contrary to very dialogue. This paper suggests, however, that mutual instrumentalization necessary for dialogue be a space where participants express solicitude each other promote other’s voice, action, existence. Building on work French philosopher Étienne Souriau, we argue promoting another’s existence requires taking their actions speech into our...

Bien que le lien entre organisation, culture et communication soit établi de longue date, façon surprenante, hormis quelques exceptions, peu chercheurs semblent avoir étudié la organisationnelle en train se re-produire, à partir d'une perspective résolument communicationnelle. La plupart des études qui ont tenté faire sont surtout basées sur entrevues, non pas l'analyse d'interactions aurait permis comprendre comment les acteurs produisent reproduisent par leurs pratiques quotidiennes. Ce...