A Performative Reading of The Work of Communication

Cabantous, L. ORCID: 0000-0003-3533-1208 & Gond, J-P. ORCID: 0000-0002-9331-6957 (2019). A Performative Reading of The Work of Communication. Management Communication Quarterly, 33(1), pp. 117-123. doi: 10.1177/0893318918809422

Abstract

The Work of Communication. Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism by Tim Kuhn, Karen Ashcraft, François Cooren , is a welcomed comprehensive and rigorous attempt at theorizing how communication ‘works’ in contemporary capitalism. In this essay, we review what we see as the contributions of this book – as organization scholars interested in performativity – and address the following question: What does this book perform?

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cabantous, L. and Gond, J-P. (2018). A Performative Reading of The Work of Communication. Management Communication Quarterly. Copyright © 2018 Sage. DOI: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/mcq#
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD61 Risk Management H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications
Departments:	Bayes Business School > Management