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Planning and Designing

Nothhaft, Howard LU ; Fjällhed, Alicia LU and Andersson, Rickard LU orcid (2021) In Handbooks of Applied Linguistics 16. p.231-246
Abstract
The chapter addresses planning and designing by asking a threefold question: 1) How does talk about plans and designs mobilize specific understandings of the organization, its environment, future and purpose? 2) How do plans and designs have agency in organizations? 3) How do management concepts affect planning and designing? The chapter draws on various illustrative examples – from Babylonian metaphysics to the U.S. Constitution, from Hobbes’s Leviathan to Prussian military doctrine – to suggest that ‘talk’ about planning and designing has more fundamental implications than previously theorized. Prosperous civilization, the chapter argues, requires plannability of the future and purpose to human... (More)
The chapter addresses planning and designing by asking a threefold question: 1) How does talk about plans and designs mobilize specific understandings of the organization, its environment, future and purpose? 2) How do plans and designs have agency in organizations? 3) How do management concepts affect planning and designing? The chapter draws on various illustrative examples – from Babylonian metaphysics to the U.S. Constitution, from Hobbes’s Leviathan to Prussian military doctrine – to suggest that ‘talk’ about planning and designing has more fundamental implications than previously theorized. Prosperous civilization, the chapter argues, requires plannability of the future and purpose to human action. After a brief etymological exploration and preliminary definition, the chapter explores this idea against the CCO-framework’s backdrop and key assumptions: that communication is constitutive of organizations. (Less)
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keywords
planning, designing, strategy, CCO, ventriloquism, smoke and crystal, future, purpose
host publication
Handbook of Management Communication
series title
Handbooks of Applied Linguistics
editor
Cooren, François and Stücheli-Herlach, Peter
volume
16
pages
16 pages
publisher
De Gruyter
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  • scopus:85131988119
ISBN
9781501516559
9781501508059
DOI
10.1515/9781501508059-012
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English
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yes
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  author       = {{Nothhaft, Howard and Fjällhed, Alicia and Andersson, Rickard}},
  booktitle    = {{Handbook of Management Communication}},
  editor       = {{Cooren, François and Stücheli-Herlach, Peter}},
  isbn         = {{9781501516559}},
  keywords     = {{planning; designing; strategy; CCO; ventriloquism; smoke and crystal; future; purpose}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{08}},
  pages        = {{231--246}},
  publisher    = {{De Gruyter}},
  series       = {{Handbooks of Applied Linguistics}},
  title        = {{Planning and Designing}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501508059-012}},
  doi          = {{10.1515/9781501508059-012}},
  volume       = {{16}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}