Niklas Luhmann’s Radical Communication Approach and Its Implications for Research on Organizational Communication

The authors stated that with With Niklas Luhmann's suggestion to conceptualize organizational communication without recourse to human beings' intention, the German sociologist Luhmann offered a radically new perspective on communicational phenomena in organizations. Luhmann developed this new perspective across numerous publications, culminating in a comprehensive theory of organizations as self-reproducing systems of communications. These writings, particularly the magnum opus Organization and Decision (Luhmann, 2018), contain many fascinating new insights that have the potential to reorient existing research on organizational communication.