Abstracts
Résumé
Bien que le lien entre organisation, culture et communication soit établi de longue date, de façon surprenante, hormis quelques exceptions, peu de chercheurs semblent avoir étudié la culture organisationnelle en train de se re-produire, à partir d’une perspective résolument communicationnelle. La plupart des études qui ont tenté de le faire se sont surtout basées sur des entrevues, et non pas sur l’analyse d’interactions qui aurait permis de comprendre comment les acteurs produisent et reproduisent la culture par leurs pratiques quotidiennes. Ce texte tente de pallier ce manque en adoptant une approche d’analyse d’interactions pour montrer comment la culture peut être conçue comme un processus communicationnel, par lequel les acteurs mobilisent des éléments – valeurs, principes, documents et autres – qu’ils positionnent comme guidant, orientant ou animant leurs actions. Cette perspective situe la culture au niveau des interactions observables, rendant concrète cette notion trop souvent intangible.
Mots-clés :
- analyse d’interactions,
- communication organisationnelle,
- culture organisationnelle,
- cultivation,
- figures,
- ventriloquie
Abstract
Although organizational culture research is well established, surprisingly few researchers have studied how culture is a communicative accomplishment. By relying on the analysis of interviews, rather than interactions, many studies do not provide insight into how various actors produce and reproduce organizational culture in the practice of communication. This paper addresses this issue by adopting a ventriloquial perspective to show how culture can be viewed as a communicative process in which actors mobilize values, principles, documents, and so on that they position as guiding or animating their actions. Hence, this paper situates culture at the level of observable interactions and communicatively “concretizes” this concept.
Keywords:
- cultivation,
- figures,
- interaction analysis,
- organizational communication,
- organizational culture,
- ventriloquism
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