Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to resolve the apparent opposition between the container metaphor of organisation and the communicative constitution of organisations perspective. I draw on works by Niklas Luhmann, George Spencer Brown, and Louis Kaufman to develop a dynamic, communicative concept of containment or “continence”. Based on this concept, I demonstrate how organisations can both be constituted by and contain communication. I conclude that the answer to the question of what we find in organisations depends on whether we are interested in the modus operandi or the topics of organisational communication.
Source: management revue
DOI: 10.31083/mrev39590
Author: Steffen Roth
Institutions: Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Excelia Business School
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411574932