Conversation–Text Theory explains organization through recursive movement between situated interaction and durable representations. Conversations produce texts that stabilize commitments and decisions; texts then shape later exchanges. This cycle lets coordination travel across time and place while leaving interpretation, authorization, and material conditions consequential.
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Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.