This paper investigates talk–action dynamics in the context of organizations, focusing in
particular on situations where the talk concerns complex organizational aspirations, that is …

Scholars are divided over the question of whether managerial aspirational talk that
contradicts current business practices can contribute to corporate social responsibility …

A number of organizational analysts have argued that we are in the midst of a paradigm
shift, away from a strictly rational to a more transactional view of organization, but their …

Within the burgeoning corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication literature, the
question of the relationship between CSR practices and CSR communication (or between …

How is an organization constituted as an actor? This article explores the property of
communication that explains how organization is able to enter the field of discourse, express …

H ow does an organization come into being? How does it continue, or why does it cease to
exist? In other words, what is an organization? How does it become an organization and …

This article examines the embeddedness of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
communications in strategic planning. By drawing on the idea that talk and texts about CSR …

Adopting a communication as constitutive of organization (CCO) perspective on ethics and
corporate social responsibility (CSR) invites us to create the conditions of a dialogue …

Extant literature on organizational storytelling assumes storytelling to be context-bound, but
does not empirically detail or theorize how storytelling might differ across organizational …

1992). In studies such as these, discourse becomes a building block–the very foundation
upon which organizational life is built. Many scholars who study the organizing properties of …