ABSTRACT
Till Jansen The idea of a communicative constitution of organization (CCO) has developed
in German-speaking countries earlier and to a large degree independently of what is known internationally as the CCO perspective today. This early version of CCO thinking is put forth by scholars who are drawing on Luhmann’s theory of social systems (TSS; Luhmann, 1995; Seidl & Becker, 2005, 2006). In contrast, what is now know as the CCO perspective comprises independent works of Montréal School of Organizational Communication (e. g., Cooren, 2006, 2010; Cooren, Taylor, & van Every, 2006), which stands in close proximity to actor-network theory (Latour, 1987, 2005), as well as the four-flows model based on Giddens’ structuration theory (e. g., McPhee & Iverson, 2009; McPhee & Zaug, 2000). The gap between among these three schools of thought has only been bridged in recent years by different scholars outlining the shared assumptions and key differences in the theoretical design (e. g., Brummans, Cooren, Robichaud, & Taylor, 2014; Cooren, Kuhn, Cornelissen, & Clark, 2011; Schoeneborn, 2011; Schoeneborn et al., 2014).
