François Cooren
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François Cooren, Ph.D
, is a French
sociologist of organisational communication and, until 2008, the editor of Communication Theory. He completed his Ph.D. at the Department of communication of the Université de Montréal
in 1996, under the supervision of James R. Taylor
. He is now chairman of that same department, where he is full professor. Cooren also holds a postdoctoral degree from the Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, in Belgium.
Cooren is currently serving his one-year term as President of the International Communication Association (since June 2010).
Cooren's research mainly focuses on organisational communication in mundane and emergency situations. He is part of what has come to be known in the field as the Montreal School of Organizational Communication, which proposes communication as the "site and surface" of organizations, meaning that the latter emerge from and are maintained by communication processes. This parts from what could be called conventional organizational communication, which views communication as a phenomenon taking place in pre-existing organizations. That particular point of view, inspired by the works of Taylor
and Van Every, Weick and others, leads Cooren to use interaction analysis and conversation analysis as his main source of data, although, whereas other interaction or conversation analysts do not seek to explain anything beyond the observed interaction, Cooren, following the works of Harold Garfinkel
or even Gabriel Tarde
, uses the micro - the interactions - to find an explanation to what takes place at the macro - organizational - level.
Doctor of Philosophy
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, is a French
France
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sociologist of organisational communication and, until 2008, the editor of Communication Theory. He completed his Ph.D. at the Department of communication of the Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...
in 1996, under the supervision of James R. Taylor
James R. Taylor
James Renwick Taylor is Professor Emeritus at the of the Université de Montréal, which he founded in the early 1970s.Drawing from research in fields such as organizational psychology James Renwick Taylor (born in 1928) is Professor Emeritus at the of the Université de Montréal, which he founded...
. He is now chairman of that same department, where he is full professor. Cooren also holds a postdoctoral degree from the Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, in Belgium.
Cooren is currently serving his one-year term as President of the International Communication Association (since June 2010).
Cooren's research mainly focuses on organisational communication in mundane and emergency situations. He is part of what has come to be known in the field as the Montreal School of Organizational Communication, which proposes communication as the "site and surface" of organizations, meaning that the latter emerge from and are maintained by communication processes. This parts from what could be called conventional organizational communication, which views communication as a phenomenon taking place in pre-existing organizations. That particular point of view, inspired by the works of Taylor
James R. Taylor
James Renwick Taylor is Professor Emeritus at the of the Université de Montréal, which he founded in the early 1970s.Drawing from research in fields such as organizational psychology James Renwick Taylor (born in 1928) is Professor Emeritus at the of the Université de Montréal, which he founded...
and Van Every, Weick and others, leads Cooren to use interaction analysis and conversation analysis as his main source of data, although, whereas other interaction or conversation analysts do not seek to explain anything beyond the observed interaction, Cooren, following the works of Harold Garfinkel
Harold Garfinkel
Harold Garfinkel was a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known for establishing and developing ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology.-Biography:...
or even Gabriel Tarde
Gabriel Tarde
Jean-Gabriel De Tarde or Gabriel Tarde in short French sociologist, criminologist and social psychologist who conceived sociology as based on small psychological interactions among individuals , the fundamental forces being imitation and innovation.- Theory :Among the concepts...
, uses the micro - the interactions - to find an explanation to what takes place at the macro - organizational - level.
Selected bibliography
- Cooren, F. (Ed.) (2006). Interacting and Organizing: Analyses of a Board Meeting. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Cooren, F., J. R. Taylor, & E. J. Van Every (Eds.) (2006). Communication as organizing: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations In the dynamic of text and conversation. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Cooren, F. (2000). The Organizing Property of Communication. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins