This entry presents the current state of the art in studies of materiality and organizing from an organizational communication view. Starting with a brief historical background of the study of materiality in social science, the entry sketches out the trajectory of this area of research in organizational communication studies. A general definition of materiality considers both “matter” and “mattering,” which derives from the explanation of two lines of scholarship: the performativity of matter (its consequences for organizing) and the double (social and material) dimensions of organizing. The central part of this entry describes four influential approaches to materiality and organizing in organizational communication studies: sociomateriality, communicative constitution of organization approach, practice based studies, and critical approaches. Based on these approaches, the entry discusses three types of materials (objects, spaces, and bodies) that have been studied in organizational communication and reflects on some theoretical implications. Finally, the main critiques addressed to the so‐called material turn in organizational communication are presented, and futures directions are outlined.
The goal of this article is to contribute to the literature on interdisciplinary collaboration by suggesting that efficient collaboration occurs when boundaries disappear (and not by trying to bridge them). It is using the constitutive approach to organization that I intend to comprehend this “dissolving of boundaries”, but also using Star and Griesemer notion of boundary-object as a framework. This conceptual articulation allows me to reveal the “making together” as the means for the disciplinary boundaries disappearance. This paper show how an architectural “project” becomes a site for communication enabling collaboration between specialists from various disciplines.
L’article propose d’explorer le bénévolat à travers les attachements et les détachements des bénévoles à une cause et à un projet de manière générale. Nous analyserons cette dynamique en mobilisant une approche constitutive de la communication organisationnelle (CCO) afin de comprendre ce qui lie, mais aussi ce qui délie les différents acteurs participant à un projet de bénévolat. L’analyse révèle plusieurs sources d’attachements et de détachements qui amènent les bénévoles à s’investir à différents degrés, voire même à quitter le projet. De plus, nous explorons en quoi certains liens (tels que la cause, le quartier et la socialisation des bénévoles) transforment la définition et le mode d’existence du projet de bénévolat et en font sa force (et sa faiblesse). En ce sens, notre étude se concentre sur les liens qui attachent et détachent, et ce faisant font tenir un projet de bénévolat au fil des passions qui meuvent les participants.
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