This past week I’ve been teaching both EMBA and MBA courses. In both settings, the communication-as-constitutive-of-organizations (CCO) perspective (Ashcraft, Kuhn, and Cooren, 2009; Putnam and Nicotera, 2008) took a hold of my arguments. I’ve been trying to get the point across that an emphasis on organizational communication highlights the relations among actors rather than the attributes of the later. (Though these relations need not be communications to begin with.) In terms of organizational charts, for example, the boundaries of boxes are getting more and more blurry only to reveal the idiosyncracies of lines. If it feels a little bit like talking about networks to you, read on.
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