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Course |
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| Perspectives on Communication and Organization (runs every 1½ year) - ONLINE | ||
Faculty |
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Professor Lars Thøger Christensen, CBS Professor Joep Cornelissen, Erasmus University Rotterdam Professor Dennis Schoeneborn, CBS |
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Course Coordinator |
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| Professor Lars Thøger Christensen & Professor Dennis Schoeneborn | ||
Prerequisites |
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The course is aimed at PhD students with a background from any discipline in the social sciences. Participation does not require prior training in communication studies. Only PhD students are accepted for the course. As part of the course registration, participants are required to hand in: (1) a short motivational statement of about 500 words on why you are applying for the course After being accepted to the course and two weeks prior to the course start at the latest, participants are required to hand in: (2) a short paper of 2,500 – 3,000 words max. (plus references), in which your PhD project is explicitly related to the course curriculum. The paper must include specific links to one or several texts from the course literature (further instructions will follow after acceptance to the course). In addition, participants should be prepared to briefly present their short papers in the workshop. Furthermore, it is expected that participants have carefully read the recommended key literatures prior to the course (plus, ideally, also some of the optional readings). It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that PhD students hand in the required paper in advance and attend the entire course. |
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Aim |
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Across the social and political sciences and beyond, communication is often understood as a simple sender-receiver model, i.e. something that merely conveys, mirrors, or represents social and physical phenomena.
Over the last 25 years, however, developments in several fields have demonstrated that communication takes center stage in processes of perception, sense-making, and world-construction. The “linguistic turn”, thus, has resulted in a rich body of research exploring how communicative practices constitute organizations, indeed how organizations “emerge” in communication. Studies of organizations as voices, sites of identity formation, or systems of power struggles, for example, have focused on the discursive and communicative processes through which organizing occurs and is “talked into existence”. This PhD course will foreground communication and explore some of these research traditions, examining the extent to which they meet the challenge of taking communication seriously as a key constitutive feature of organizations. |
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Course content |
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The PhD course will allow students to discuss and experiment with the applicability of a communication-centered perspective for conceptual and/or empirical inquiries into organization and organizing. The course will address themes and concepts like performativity, transparency, identity, polyphony, power, institutionalized practices, and new forms of organizing. Students will learn how to analyze organization from a communication-centered perspective.
Furthermore, the course will include introductions to communicative constitution of organization (CCO) as well as communicative institutionalism, two theoretical perspectives that have gained increasing attention in management and organization studies over the past years. Finally, students will be taught in the craft of writing for scholarly publication at the interdisciplinary intersections of communication and organization. |
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Teaching style |
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| The teaching style will be a mixture of lectures, short presentations, and discussion sessions in which students are expected to actively participate. Each student will need to read the short papers of the other course participants before the workshop and will be asked to act as a discussant of one short paper (these discussant roles will be assigned by the course coordinators). | ||
Lecture plan |
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The lecture plan is preliminary and subject to further adjustments. Tuesday Day 1
10.30 - 11.00 - Welcome & a few practical matters
Dennis Schoeneborn & Lars Thøger Christensen
11.00 - 13.00 - Introduction to Communication Perspectives on Organization and Organizing Lars Thøger Christensen 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch break 14.00 - 16.00 Introduction to the 'Communicative Constitution of Organizations' (CCO) Perspective Dennis Schoeneborn 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 - 18.00 Student project discussions Lars Thøger Christensen & Dennis Schoeneborn Wednesday Day 2 9.00 - 12.00 Talk and Performativity Lars Thøger Christensen Organizational 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break 13.00 - 15.00 New Forms of Organizing and Organizationality Dennis Schoeneborn 15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break 15.30 - 18.00 Student project discussions Lars Thøger Christensen & Dennis Schoeneborn Thursday Day 3 9.00 - 12.00 Revisiting the Question of Org. Voice: Identity, Representation, Integration, and Polyphony Lars Thøger Christensen & Dennis Schoeneborn 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break 13.00 - 15.00 Introduction to Communicative Institutionalism Joep Cornelissen 15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break 15.30 - 18.00 Student project discussions Lars Thøger Christensen & Joep Cornelissen Friday Day 4 9.00 - 12.00 How to Develop Theory at the Intersection of Communication and Organization (Part I) Joep Cornelissen 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break 13.00 - 15.00 How to Develop Theory at the Intersection of Communication and Organization (Part II/Exercises) Joep Cornelissen 15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break 15.30 - 17.30 Student project discussion Lars Thøger Christensen & Dennis Schoeneborn 17.30 - 18.00 Course Evaluation and Farewell Lars Thøger Christensen & Dennis Schoeneborn |
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Learning objectives |
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• To sharpen students’ sensitivity to important nuances between different theoretical approaches to communication and organization, including their ontological, epistemological, and axiological implications. • To enable students to detect and question simplistic assumptions about communication and its possible effects on organizations and their members. • To become familiar with more elaborate understandings of communication that take into account its potentially formative and constitutive role in the contexts of organizations and wider society. • To aid students in understanding organization as ongoing communicative accomplishment, along with examining the consequences of assuming such a perspective. • To develop skills in crafting (incl. framing, positioning, and scoping) research papers that draws on insights from the field of communication studies and enable them to apply these insights to the study of organization in an interdisciplinary way. |
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Start date |
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| 02/02/2021 | ||
End date |
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| 05/02/2021 | ||
Level |
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| PhD | ||
ECTS |
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| 5 | ||
Language |
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| English | ||
Course Literature |
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(Preliminary – a detailed reading list will be provided after acceptance to the course) Axley, S. (1984). Managerial communication in terms of the conduit metaphor. Academy of Management Review, 9(3), 428-437. Christensen, L. T., Morsing, M., & Thyssen, O. (forthcoming). Talk-action dynamics: Modalities of aspirational talk. Organization Studies. Cornelissen, J. P., Durand, R., Fiss, P. C., Lammers, J., & Vaara, E. (2015). Putting communication front and center in institutional theory and analysis. Academy of Management Review, 40(1), 10-27. Dobusch, L., & Schoeneborn, D. (2015). Fluidity, identity, and organizationality: The communicative constitution of Anonymous. Journal of Management Studies, 52(8), 1005-1035. Locke K. & Golden-Biddle K. (1997). Constructing opportunities for contribution: Structuring intertextual coherence and “problematizing” in organizational studies. Academy of Management Journal, (40)5, 1023-1062. Schoeneborn, D. & Vásquez, C. (2017). Communication as constitutive of organization. In: C. R. Scott & L. K. Lewis (Eds.). International encyclopedia of organizational communication. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Taylor, J. R., & Cooren, F. (1997). What makes communication ‘organizational’? How the many voices of a collectivity become the one voice of an organization. Journal of Pragmatics, 27, 409-438. Thyssen, O. (2005). The invisibility of the organization. Ephemera, 5(3), 519-536. Windahl, S., Signitzer, B. & Olsen, J. T. (2009): Using communication theory – an introduction to planned communication. London: Sage. [Excerpt: chapter 2] |
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Fee |
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| DKK 3,250 (online course fee) | ||
Minimum number of participants |
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| 15 | ||
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Maximum number of participants |
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| 18 | ||
Location |
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Copenhagen Business School 2000 Frederiksberg ONLINE COURSE |
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Contact information |
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The PhD Support Nina Iversen Tel.: +45 38 15 24 75 E-mail: ni.research@cbs.dk |
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Registration deadline |
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| 11/12/2020 | ||
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The short motivational statement must be uploaded together with your registration. In case we receive more registrations for the course than we have places, the registrations will be prioritized in the following order: Students from the CBS Doctoral School, students from other institutions than CBS. Please note that your registration is binding after the registration deadline. This course runs every 1½ year. |
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