ABSTRACT
This chapter intended to enrich understanding of coordination, to expand organizational communication research into an area that is rich with possibilities, and to illuminate structuration. The chapter identifies and then attempt to redress, four problematic issues in organizational coordination literature. First, distinguish coordinating as the overarching process, second, explicate and distinguish coordinating mechanism from coordination. Third, proposing a model relating structures that affect practices to outcomes - all within organizational member's ongoing streams of activity and interaction. Fourth, theorize organizational coordination as a distinctly communication phenomenon. It conceptualizes organizational coordination in more concrete and simple ways that should make further progress and understanding easier. And there is a dearth of organizational coordination research from a communication perspective. Studies of organizational coordination also can be found across many disciplines, including economics, linguistics, management, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology. Finally, in linking communication, coordination, and structuration, we have shown ways that our understanding of structuration theory is strengthened through the investigation of coordination.
