Drawing on writings within the CSCW community and on recent social theory, this paper
proposes that the adoption of speech act theory as a foundation for system design carries …

Abstract Lucy Suchman's paper,“Do categories have politics,” challenges the validity of
speech act theory as a basis for computer systems for workflow support. Suchman fears that …

How is an organization constituted as an actor? This article explores the property of
communication that explains how organization is able to enter the field of discourse, express …

A number of organizational analysts have argued that we are in the midst of a paradigm
shift, away from a strictly rational to a more transactional view of organization, but their …

The scope of CSCW, its focus on work, has been a topic of sporadic debate for many years—
indeed, from the very beginning in the late 1980s. But in recent years the issue has become …

Abstract Systems for supporting communication in organizations should be founded on a
theory of language and communication. A well-known theory for this purpose is speech act …

1992). In studies such as these, discourse becomes a building block–the very foundation
upon which organizational life is built. Many scholars who study the organizing properties of …

H ow does an organization come into being? How does it continue, or why does it cease to
exist? In other words, what is an organization? How does it become an organization and …

This paper is concerned with the development of a language/action perspective in the
Cosmos project. We emphasize the importance of seeing cooperative work in terms of …

This study reconceptualizes collective identity from a communication perspective using a
constitutive model of communication as a theoretical framework. A longitudinal case study is …