Timothy Kuhn
Biographic Data
| ID | 84745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Kuhn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuhn |
| SIGNATURE | KUHN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1510-5978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Remodeling the Hierarchy: An Organization-Centric Model of Influence for Media Sociology Research
Primarily due to an influx of market models, the journalism industry recently experienced a fragmentation of professional culture and, therefore, professionalism. This theoretical essay proposes a new focus for understanding influence on journalistic practice. Studying influence in the twenty-first century requires a model that does not include a hierarchy and therefore does not implicitly validate a universal journalism culture. The theoretical …
Organizations and the Theory of the Firm
Theories of the firm are the primary vehicles by which scholars answer questions about firms' existence, internal operations, modes of securing competitive advantage, and location of boundaries. Starting in economics and moving into management, this entry reviews dominant governance and competence approaches to the theory of the firm, exploring the approaches' implications for theorizing organizations. It concludes by engaging with two alternativ…
The Communicative Constitution of Organization, Organizing, and Organizationality
Although the lion’s share of scholarship in management and organization studies conceives of organizations as entities within which communication occurs, “Communication Constitutes Organization” (CCO) scholarship has attracted interest because it makes a productive reversal, that is, by asking how organization happens in communication. Over the past decade, Organization Studies has become the key scholarly outlet for CCO thinking in the managemen…
Dis/organization As Communication: Exploring the Disordering, Disruptive and Chaotic Properties of Communication
Extending the Constitutive Project: Response to Cooren and Sandler
As Cooren and Sandler note in their paper, communication studies has largely received Bakhtin as a theorist of dialogue, but such a framing limits his potential contributions to our thinking. They argue that when we seek to understand the communicative constitution of reality, Bakhtin's work can lead us in novel and fruitful directions. I find their claims compelling, and thus this response is more appreciative critique and argument for extension…
A Communicative Framework of Value in Cross-Sector Partnerships
Cross-sector partnerships (XSPs) are an important part of today's organizational landscape and a favored strategy for addressing complex social problems. However, a discrepancy exists between the popularity and prevalence of XSPs and evidence of their ability to produce value with respect to the problems they address. We therefore offer a framework for increasing and assessing XSP value based on an alternative conception of organizational constit…
Communication and Materiality: A Conversation from the CM Café
The Communication Monographs Café first opened six months ago when it hosted a group of scholars to talk about issues social justice and public scholarship. The conversation was wide-ranging and stimulating, so we knew it was important to open the Café on a regular basis for more interaction about the issues that are engaging today’s communication researchers. This time, we opened the Café during the summer months*iced drinks were the norm, and t…
Communication, Organizing and Organization: An Overview and Introduction to the Special Issue
This paper provides an overview of previous work that has explored the processes and mechanisms by which communication constitutes organizing (as ongoing efforts at coordination and control of activity and knowledge) and organizations (as collective actors that are 'talked' into existence). We highlight differences between existing theories and analyses grounded in communication-as-constitutive (CCO) perspectives and describe six overarching prem…
Constitutional Amendments: “Materializing” Organizational Communication
This essay aims to “materialize” organizational communication in three senses. First, we seek to make the field of study bearing this name more tangible for North American management scholars, such that recognition and engagement become common. To do so, we trace the development of the field’s major contribution thus far: the communication‐as‐constitutive principle, which highlights how communication generates defining realities of organizational…
Positioning Lawyers: Discursive Resources, Professional Ethics and Identification
Critics assert that lawyers’ subject positions make them accomplices to corporate domination. Work on subject position formation, however, frequently ignores either identifications with particular organizations or the manifold discourses circulating around those organizations. To address this, I asked junior corporate attorneys at a large US law firm to reflect on the accusation of being a ‘corporate lackey’. In their responses were four forms of…
Organization Studies: The Fourth Organization Studies Summer Workshop: “Embracing Complexity: Advancing Ecological Understanding in Organization Studies” 5—7 June 2008, Pissouri, Cyprus
A ‘Demented Work Ethic’ and a ‘Lifestyle Firm’: Discourse, Identity, and Workplace Time Commitments
One key to understanding the contours of late modernity is to examine workers’ allocations of time to their organizations. In this article, I frame workplace time commitments as the outcome of two forces: individuals’ efforts to portray a positive and distinctive identity (identity work) and the organizational and social discourses shaping those identities (identity regulation). Analysis of interviews with 53 employees from two distinct organizat…
The Detectability of Socio-Egocentric Group Speech: A Quasi-Turing Test
Scholars interested in group phenomena generally conceive of communication as either a conduit for, or as constitutive of, group decisions. Hewes's socio-egocentric model contends that we possess no unambiguous proof of any communicative impact on decision making. This study asks whether contrived socio-egocentric group speech is distinguishable from real group speech, and therefore whether the socio-egocentric model is even a plausible depiction…
The emergence of homogeneity and heterogeneity in knowledge structures during a planned organizational change
Scholars and practitioners increasingly strive to understand the complexities marking implementations of organizational change programs. Studies on this topic often concentrate on members ’ cognition about a planned change, regularly finding that members ’ knowledge structures and interpretations either converge or diverge over time. Using interviews, observations, and a unique discourse processing technique, a nine-month case study of one divisi…
Studying Complex Discursive Systems: Centering Resonance Analysis of Communication
Scholars increasingly theorize about the power of communication to organize and structure social collectives. However, two factors threaten to impede research on these theories: limitations in the scope and range of existing methods for studying complex systems of communication and the large volume of communication produced by even small collectives. Centering resonance analysis (CRA) is a new text analysis method that has broad scope and range a…
Do conflict management styles affect group decision making? Evidence from a longitudinal field study
This study examined the relationship between group conflict management styles and effectiveness of group decision making in 11 ongoing, naturally occurring workgroups from 2 large U.S. organizations. The major postulate of the study was that groups develop norms regarding how they will manage conflicts that carry over to affect other activities, such as decision making, even when these activities do not involve open conflict. To determine the imp…
Communication, Organizing and Organization: An Overview and Introduction to the Special Issue
This paper provides an overview of previous work that has explored the processes and mechanisms by which communication constitutes organizing (as ongoing efforts at coordination and control of activity and knowledge) and organizations (as collective actors that are 'talked' into existence). We highlight differences between existing theories and analyses grounded in communication-as-constitutive (CCO) perspectives and describe six overarching prem…
Remodeling the Hierarchy: An Organization-Centric Model of Influence for Media Sociology Research
Primarily due to an influx of market models, the journalism industry recently experienced a fragmentation of professional culture and, therefore, professionalism. This theoretical essay proposes a new focus for understanding influence on journalistic practice. Studying influence in the twenty-first century requires a model that does not include a hierarchy and therefore does not implicitly validate a universal journalism culture. The theoretical …
The Detectability of Socio-Egocentric Group Speech: A Quasi-Turing Test
Scholars interested in group phenomena generally conceive of communication as either a conduit for, or as constitutive of, group decisions. Hewes's socio-egocentric model contends that we possess no unambiguous proof of any communicative impact on decision making. This study asks whether contrived socio-egocentric group speech is distinguishable from real group speech, and therefore whether the socio-egocentric model is even a plausible depiction…
The emergence of homogeneity and heterogeneity in knowledge structures during a planned organizational change
Scholars and practitioners increasingly strive to understand the complexities marking implementations of organizational change programs. Studies on this topic often concentrate on members ’ cognition about a planned change, regularly finding that members ’ knowledge structures and interpretations either converge or diverge over time. Using interviews, observations, and a unique discourse processing technique, a nine-month case study of one divisi…
Communication and Materiality: A Conversation from the CM Café
The Communication Monographs Café first opened six months ago when it hosted a group of scholars to talk about issues social justice and public scholarship. The conversation was wide-ranging and stimulating, so we knew it was important to open the Café on a regular basis for more interaction about the issues that are engaging today’s communication researchers. This time, we opened the Café during the summer months*iced drinks were the norm, and t…
Extending the Constitutive Project: Response to Cooren and Sandler
As Cooren and Sandler note in their paper, communication studies has largely received Bakhtin as a theorist of dialogue, but such a framing limits his potential contributions to our thinking. They argue that when we seek to understand the communicative constitution of reality, Bakhtin's work can lead us in novel and fruitful directions. I find their claims compelling, and thus this response is more appreciative critique and argument for extension…
Do conflict management styles affect group decision making? Evidence from a longitudinal field study
This study examined the relationship between group conflict management styles and effectiveness of group decision making in 11 ongoing, naturally occurring workgroups from 2 large U.S. organizations. The major postulate of the study was that groups develop norms regarding how they will manage conflicts that carry over to affect other activities, such as decision making, even when these activities do not involve open conflict. To determine the imp…
Studying Complex Discursive Systems: Centering Resonance Analysis of Communication
Scholars increasingly theorize about the power of communication to organize and structure social collectives. However, two factors threaten to impede research on these theories: limitations in the scope and range of existing methods for studying complex systems of communication and the large volume of communication produced by even small collectives. Centering resonance analysis (CRA) is a new text analysis method that has broad scope and range a…
The emergence of homogeneity and heterogeneity in knowledge structures during a planned organizational change
Scholars and practitioners increasingly strive to understand the complexities marking implementations of organizational change programs. Studies on this topic often concentrate on members ’ cognition about a planned change, regularly finding that members ’ knowledge structures and interpretations either converge or diverge over time. Using interviews, observations, and a unique discourse processing technique, a nine-month case study of one divisi…
The Detectability of Socio-Egocentric Group Speech: A Quasi-Turing Test
Scholars interested in group phenomena generally conceive of communication as either a conduit for, or as constitutive of, group decisions. Hewes's socio-egocentric model contends that we possess no unambiguous proof of any communicative impact on decision making. This study asks whether contrived socio-egocentric group speech is distinguishable from real group speech, and therefore whether the socio-egocentric model is even a plausible depiction…
A ‘Demented Work Ethic’ and a ‘Lifestyle Firm’: Discourse, Identity, and Workplace Time Commitments
One key to understanding the contours of late modernity is to examine workers’ allocations of time to their organizations. In this article, I frame workplace time commitments as the outcome of two forces: individuals’ efforts to portray a positive and distinctive identity (identity work) and the organizational and social discourses shaping those identities (identity regulation). Analysis of interviews with 53 employees from two distinct organizat…
Organization Studies: The Fourth Organization Studies Summer Workshop: “Embracing Complexity: Advancing Ecological Understanding in Organization Studies” 5—7 June 2008, Pissouri, Cyprus
Constitutional Amendments: “Materializing” Organizational Communication
This essay aims to “materialize” organizational communication in three senses. First, we seek to make the field of study bearing this name more tangible for North American management scholars, such that recognition and engagement become common. To do so, we trace the development of the field’s major contribution thus far: the communication‐as‐constitutive principle, which highlights how communication generates defining realities of organizational…
Positioning Lawyers: Discursive Resources, Professional Ethics and Identification
Critics assert that lawyers’ subject positions make them accomplices to corporate domination. Work on subject position formation, however, frequently ignores either identifications with particular organizations or the manifold discourses circulating around those organizations. To address this, I asked junior corporate attorneys at a large US law firm to reflect on the accusation of being a ‘corporate lackey’. In their responses were four forms of…
Communication and Materiality: A Conversation from the CM Café
The Communication Monographs Café first opened six months ago when it hosted a group of scholars to talk about issues social justice and public scholarship. The conversation was wide-ranging and stimulating, so we knew it was important to open the Café on a regular basis for more interaction about the issues that are engaging today’s communication researchers. This time, we opened the Café during the summer months*iced drinks were the norm, and t…
Communication, Organizing and Organization: An Overview and Introduction to the Special Issue
This paper provides an overview of previous work that has explored the processes and mechanisms by which communication constitutes organizing (as ongoing efforts at coordination and control of activity and knowledge) and organizations (as collective actors that are 'talked' into existence). We highlight differences between existing theories and analyses grounded in communication-as-constitutive (CCO) perspectives and describe six overarching prem…
A Communicative Framework of Value in Cross-Sector Partnerships
Cross-sector partnerships (XSPs) are an important part of today's organizational landscape and a favored strategy for addressing complex social problems. However, a discrepancy exists between the popularity and prevalence of XSPs and evidence of their ability to produce value with respect to the problems they address. We therefore offer a framework for increasing and assessing XSP value based on an alternative conception of organizational constit…
Extending the Constitutive Project: Response to Cooren and Sandler
As Cooren and Sandler note in their paper, communication studies has largely received Bakhtin as a theorist of dialogue, but such a framing limits his potential contributions to our thinking. They argue that when we seek to understand the communicative constitution of reality, Bakhtin's work can lead us in novel and fruitful directions. I find their claims compelling, and thus this response is more appreciative critique and argument for extension…
The Communicative Constitution of Organization, Organizing, and Organizationality
Although the lion’s share of scholarship in management and organization studies conceives of organizations as entities within which communication occurs, “Communication Constitutes Organization” (CCO) scholarship has attracted interest because it makes a productive reversal, that is, by asking how organization happens in communication. Over the past decade, Organization Studies has become the key scholarly outlet for CCO thinking in the managemen…
Dis/organization As Communication: Exploring the Disordering, Disruptive and Chaotic Properties of Communication
Organizations and the Theory of the Firm
Theories of the firm are the primary vehicles by which scholars answer questions about firms' existence, internal operations, modes of securing competitive advantage, and location of boundaries. Starting in economics and moving into management, this entry reviews dominant governance and competence approaches to the theory of the firm, exploring the approaches' implications for theorizing organizations. It concludes by engaging with two alternativ…
Remodeling the Hierarchy: An Organization-Centric Model of Influence for Media Sociology Research
Primarily due to an influx of market models, the journalism industry recently experienced a fragmentation of professional culture and, therefore, professionalism. This theoretical essay proposes a new focus for understanding influence on journalistic practice. Studying influence in the twenty-first century requires a model that does not include a hierarchy and therefore does not implicitly validate a universal journalism culture. The theoretical …
Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Management (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works)