Collaborating to Create Discursive Openings

• In Event: Finding Space to Speak in and about Organizations

Abstract

This essay explores the efficacy of collaborative organizational structures to create discursive openings in the modern organization, thereby offering various stakeholders of organizations discursive opportunities to engage dialogue and, in so doing, create synergistic and sustainable solutions while shaking up systematically distorted communication structures, and argues that by creating sites for collaboration in the micro-level, even through economic, bottom-line oriented rationale, organizational members might be able to upset systematically distorted communication systems.

Author

• Ryan Hartwig, University of Colorado, Boulder