Purpose The paper explores processes associated with the adoption of corporate sustainability communication in a B2B context. It employs combined action research and sensemaking approach to document moments that precede initiation external communication. Design/methodology/approach is outcome an project, where we examine case one industrial company was silent on its multiple sustainability-rela...

The social brain contains distinct networks for mentalizing as well as for mirroring-based action observation. We present work towards a model of how these two systems may interact during embodied communication. The model connects a mentalizing system for attributing and inferring different orders of belief about own and other’s mental states, with a hierarchical predictive model for online act...

Both ‘actions’ and ‘interactions’ can be considered as micro-operations that can be aggregated from a systemic perspective. Whereas actions operate historically, interactions provide the events retrospectively with meaning. Luhmann’s sociology of communication systems adds to the approach of symbolic interactionism the question of what global dimensions of communication mean for local interacti...

Combining participatory action research (PAR) and action learning (AL) is an effective mechanism for healthcare practitioners who wish to change clinical practice: The outcome of a study on nursing handover and multi-disciplinary communication. Traditionally verbal handovers are lengthy and time consuming resulting in nurses spending an unacceptable time away from patient care. They lack struct...

In multi-robot system, cooperation is needed to execute tasks efficiently. The purpose of this study is to realize cooperation among multiple robots using interactive communication. An important role of communication in multi-robot system is to make it possible to control other robots by intention transmission. We consider that multi-robot system can be more and more adaptive by treating commun...

The paper examines one of the corner-stones of the language/action (LAP) approaches: communication loop modelling. This kind of modelling is used in approaches like Action Workflow and DEMO and it includes the modelling of two fundamental roles; customer and performer. The paper extends earlier critical analysis of two-role models. It introduces the principle of multi-responsiveness, meaning th...

From a Systemic Semiotic perspective, instances of organisational communication (texts) and their general patterns (text types or genres) are treated as distinct from workplace action and their general patterns (action types). Administrative and Manufacturing systems demonstrate how genres and action types are discursively organised into workpractices. Different kinds of action can be identifie...

This article argues that “health activism” as a concept has been overlooked as an important element of health communication and situates the concept in relation to key areas of research in the field, including health citizenship and community organizing. The author presents theoretical frameworks for comparing and contrasting health-related social action based on issue focus and political orien...