ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we address a crucial and recurrent question encountered in the field of organizational communication: How can we describe and analyze the details of interactions while demonstrating that they literally contribute to the constitution of an organization? In other words, how can we bridge the gap that seems to exist between communication, which always appears to be micro and local, and structures, which always appear to be global and macro? While this issue is hardly new to communication or sociological inquiry,1 it is our hope that our answer will prove to be original.
