ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how does speech acting of and among autonomous persons constitute new organizations through deliberations and reasoning between competing narratives and how does an agreed-on narrative constitute the blueprint of a new organization. Transverse highlights the freedom of choice and the struggle between existing narratives; longitudinal puts focus on the accumulation of determining factors behind a decision over time. The task is to look into the dynamics of public and private organizing, democratic, communal organizing and private interest focused organizing—including the balance and the struggle between public and private organizing, exemplified mainly in Norwegian materials. The task here is to investigate and to try to spell out this language-/speech-acting-based constitutional function in organizing and to suggest its importance, its power in the organizing process. The speech-acting analysis of organizations therefore distinguishes between the deliberative process before the establishment of an organization and the factor analysis explaining the decision or organization after it is a fact.
