Les articulations des textes et des conversations dans l’approche de la communication constitutive des organisations

Researchs considering communication as constitutive of organizations (CCO) focus on the texts and conversations both as research objects rather than conceptual tools. We prefer the concept of “articulation” between texts and conversations instead of the notion of “cycle” from the article of Taylor and colleagues (1996). By definition, the notion of “cycle” takes a cer tain order, the repetition of a phenomenon that does not seem to be transformed through each iteration. The articulation joins the texts and conversations to form “a whole”, more important than its parts. We propose in this article to discuss three articulations between text(s) and conversation(s) to explicit the analytical possibilities of this couple and to understand phenomena and organizational issues. We question the analytical impact of these concepts to examine spatial and temporal dimensions or even actors or actants in the constitution of the organization