ABSTRACT
Communication as constitutive of organization (CCO) scholarship starts with a premise that communication actions constitute organizing as well as organizations, hence the acronym. This conceptual framework emphasizes that any communication act (discourses, images, artefacts, signs, etc.) “builds,” “shapes,” and gives character to organizations and organizing processes. This chapter shows how an autoethnographic approach that mobilizes a CCO perspective can enhance our understanding of organizational processes when doing fieldwork. The emergence of CCO scholarship can be traced back from what is known today as the interpretive turn in communication and social sciences. Cooren et al. discusses how CCO scholarship should aim at putting forward the idea that organizations and organizing are carried out by and in communication. As the authors note, “by taking seriously the question of the mode of existence and action of organizational forms, CCO scholarship refuses to choose between studying how people get organized and how organizations come to be re-enacted and reproduced through these activities”.
