Niklas Luhmann’s Radical Communication Approach and Its Implications for Research on Organizational Communication
这篇综述探讨了卢曼的激进沟通方法如何重新定位组织沟通研究,强调决策、组织连续性与边界,并讨论其理论可从其他研究中汲取灵感的三个领域。
In this review essay, we explore how Luhmann’s radical communication approach, which conceptualizes communication without recourse to human beings’ intentions, can reorient existing research on organizational communication. We show how Luhmann’s perspective puts decisions back into organizational communication studies, how it changes our perspective on organizational continuity and on organizational boundaries, and how it redirects our understanding of human agency in organizations. We also discuss three areas in which Luhmann’s theory could draw inspiration from other research on organizational communication. Keywords: autopoiesis, communication, Niklas Luhmann, organization studies, systems theory.