Organizations as Entitative Beings: Some Ontological Implications of Communicative Constitution

• In Event: (Re)Constructions of Organizing and Organization

Abstract

Organizational agents are presumptively entities, but the nature of “entity” is backgrounded to the nature of “agency.” This paper proposes that our thinking will be enriched by problematizing “entity,” specifically by seeking its genesis, switching figure and ground, to put agency in the background and foreground entity. This paper is presents a model that frames questions about the conception and birth of organizations and discusses the ontological implications of framing communicative constitution in this way.

Author

• Anne Nicotera, George Mason Univ