TY - JOUR

T1 - Communication as constitutive of terrorist organizations

AU - Schoeneborn, Dennis

AU - Scherer, Andreas Georg

N1 - Academy of Management 2010 Annual Meeting - Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research, AOM 2010 2010, 6p 70th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - Dare to Care: Passion and Compassion in Management Practice and Research, AOM 2010; Montreal, QC; Canada; 6 August 2010 through 10 August 2010; Code 88979

PY - 2010/8/1

Y1 - 2010/8/1

N2 - This paper deals with the question how today's globalized forms of terrorism can be understood in their organizational dimension. Starting from the estimation that existing concepts (e.g., hierarchy, network, or social movement) are limited in comprehending these new forms of terrorist organizing, we propose an alternative perspective on organizations as being more adequate: the communication-as-constitutive of organizations perspective (CCO; Ashcraft, Kuhn & Cooren, 2009; Putnam & Nicotera, 2009). Based on the CCO perspective, terrorist organizations can be conceptualized as essentially consisting of communicative events which necessitate to become interconnected over time. Keeping in mind this rather ephemeral notion of organizations, CCO points our attention to the constitutive conditions which allow for the emergence and stabilization of terrorist organizing. We finally derive suggestions on how to destabilize the continuous reproduction of terrorist organizing practices.

AB - This paper deals with the question how today's globalized forms of terrorism can be understood in their organizational dimension. Starting from the estimation that existing concepts (e.g., hierarchy, network, or social movement) are limited in comprehending these new forms of terrorist organizing, we propose an alternative perspective on organizations as being more adequate: the communication-as-constitutive of organizations perspective (CCO; Ashcraft, Kuhn & Cooren, 2009; Putnam & Nicotera, 2009). Based on the CCO perspective, terrorist organizations can be conceptualized as essentially consisting of communicative events which necessitate to become interconnected over time. Keeping in mind this rather ephemeral notion of organizations, CCO points our attention to the constitutive conditions which allow for the emergence and stabilization of terrorist organizing. We finally derive suggestions on how to destabilize the continuous reproduction of terrorist organizing practices.

KW - CCO

KW - Organizational communication

KW - Terrorism

KW - Management studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858671500&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.5465/AMBPP.2010.54500925

DO - 10.5465/AMBPP.2010.54500925

M3 - Conference article in journal

SP - 1

EP - 6

JO - Academy of Management Proceedings

JF - Academy of Management Proceedings

SN - 0065-0668

IS - 2010

M1 - 88979

ER -