Cooren, F., & Fairhurst, G. T. (2009). Dislocation and stabilization: How to scale up from interactions to organization. In L. L. Putnam & A. M. Nicotera (Eds.), Building theories of organization: The constitutive role of communication (pp. 117–152). New York, NY: Routledge.
Key takeaways
Registered from metadata, not a reading. The title states the question: how analysis of interactions can show them constituting an organization, the micro–macro problem posed for a communicative constitution view. The mechanisms are named “dislocation” and “stabilization”.
Why this is here
Bencherki, Brummans & Vézy (LIT-1902) take from it the phrase “scaling up” (p. 1364, citing p. 119) for the move “from the individual to organizational/collective action” that, they say, makes approaches like Cooren’s zoom in on agents. They reject it: individuation runs concurrently at different “levels”, and the question of scaling up “is only relevant … when communication is regarded as an interaction between already-existing agents, operating at different levels” (p. 1364). THEORY-1278 records that claim.
Whether the parent represents the chapter fairly could not be checked. The point to check when a copy comes: whether Cooren and Fairhurst treat the individual and the organization as levels between which one scales, or, as “dislocation” suggests, as interactions already shot through with absent and distant agencies, which would be a flat account closer to the parent’s than its p. 1364 contrast allows.