Extant research on CSR communication has focused primarily on external communication, i.e. what firms communicate to their environment. At the same time, a large part of this literature exhibits a mechanistic understanding of communication that implies the possibility of a package-like transfer...

A growing body of literature in organization studies draws on the assumption that communication constitutes organization, often abbreviated to CCO. In this paper, we introduce Luhmann’s theory of social systems as one explicit strain of CCO thinking. We particularly argue that Luhmann’s...

Organization studies increasingly draw on the idea that organizations are constituted by communications. The theoretical assumptions and empirical implications are well in development at both the Montréal School of Organizational Communication and Social Systems Theory. However, we notice that...