Call for Chapter Submissions
Disrupting and Consolidating CCO Research: Moving Together in Different Directions
Co-Editors: John G. McClellan (Aalborg Universitet, Denmark) & François Cooren (Université de Montréal, Canada)
We invite submissions of chapter abstracts for inclusion in a proposed edited volume emerging from the 2025 ICA Preconference on the topic of 'Disrupting and Consolidating CCO Research'. Through this edited volume, we aim to extend and expand upon the insightful conversations from the ICA preconference.
Specifically, we are seeking quality chapter proposals offering studies or reflections that both disrupt and consolidate CCO (Communication as Constitutive of Organization) research. All the sensitivities of the CCO approach are welcome: empirical, theoretical, critical, feminist, decolonial, queer, etc., and our hope is that this diversity will be reflected in the selected chapters for the book. In this edited volume, we aim to bring diverse perspectives into productive dialogue to see how CCO research can "move together in different directions," as mentioned in the subtitle of the proposed book.
Our main objective with the book is to show how CCO perspectives can help us not only better understand how organizations function or dysfunction but also reveal how CCO perspectives might improve the conditions in which people work, organize themselves, and deal with the organizations that employ them.
We aim to include chapters from scholars all over the world. Over the past 30 years, CCO perspectives have been widely developed in Canada, the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Australasia, but we are hoping this call for chapters will also attract scholars from Africa and Asia. Additionally, thanks to recent contributions (especially in the 2022 Routledge Handbook of CCO) CCO perspectives have been broadened theoretically, epistemologically, and empirically through the inclusion of queer, postcolonial, feminist, and critical approaches, which have been historically underrepresented in this kind of study. Thus, we hope this call for chapters also attracts scholars with such broadened approaches.
If you are interested in submitting a chapter for consideration for this edited volume, please send a 750 to 1000 word extended abstract detailing the topic of a proposed chapter as well as a description of how the chapter disrupts and/or consolidates CCO research.
Submission deadline: 17 October 2025
Chapter proposals should include:
· The title of the proposed chapter
· The name(s) of the author(s) and their affiliation(s)
· The email address and contact details of the author(s)
· An extended abstract (750 – 1000 words) describing the chapter topic including an explanation of how the chapter disrupts/consolidates CCO research
· A list of 3-5 keywords describing the area and focus
· References list
Please submit your chapter proposals via an email attachment to John McClellan at johngm@ikl.aau.dk
After the submission deadline, the co-editors will review the chapter proposals and invite select authors to have their chapter abstracts included in a book proposal (currently planned for submission to Palgrave MacMillan's 'New Perspectives in Organizational Communication' series). Chapters would be expected to be developed in 2026.
If you have any questions, please contact John McClellan johngm@ikl.aau.dk
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John G. McClellan
Associate Professor
Department of Culture and Learning
Aalborg Universitet
Denmark
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