“…Alternatively, communication scholars offer a more complex view of human interaction and collaboration. Previous communication research has addressed concepts such as dialogue (Zoller, 2000(Zoller, , 2004, collaborative spirit (Heath & Sias, 1999), bona fide groups (Keyton & Stallworth, 2003), framing (Brummans et al, 2008), coordinated action (Eisenberg, 1995), translation and articulation (Cooren, 2001), ideology (Ruud, 2000), democracy (Heath, 2007), and meaning management (Dixon & Dougherty, 2010), which provide a more robust understanding of the role of communication for collaborative relationships between organizations and other stakeholder groups. Much of this communication scholarship on collaboration is rooted in a constitutive or meaning-centered view of communication (Craig, 1999;Deetz, 1992), which conceptualizes communication as generative of social realities, and that organizations of all types are constituted in and through processes of meaning construction (Ashcraft, Kuhn, & Cooren, 2009).…”