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...

This paper proposes to study the constitution of organization at the interstice of order and disorder. By putting forward the processual, heterogeneous, and fragmented nature of organization, it explores the mediating role of communication in organizational becoming (Tsoukas and Chia, 2002)....