ABSTRACT A significant issue for any academic field is how key theories are represented in textbooks. Textbooks are important institutional artifacts that organize entire subject areas, and thus key sites for assessing how scholarly ideas are developed and understood. However, the field of communication studies has done little to investigate how the key theories of our discipline are represented in our textbooks. This critical essay seeks to remedy this shortcoming with an exemplar investigation from the field of organizational communication and CCO Theory. We summarize the current state of CCO thinking and explore how this theory is portrayed in organizational communication textbooks, while also discussing implications of textbook representations for the broader field of communication studies.

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教科书中如何体现传播学研究的批判性回顾：以组织传播和 CCO 理论为例

摘要对于任何学术领域来说，一个重要的问题是教科书中如何表达关键理论。教科书是组织整个学科领域的重要机构产物，因此是评估学术思想如何发展和理解的关键站点。然而，传播研究领域几乎没有研究我们学科的关键理论如何在我们的教科书中得到体现。这篇批判性文章试图通过组织沟通和 CCO 理论领域的示例调查来弥补这一缺陷。我们总结了 CCO 思维的现状，并探讨了组织传播教科书中如何描述这一理论，同时还讨论了教科书表述对更广泛的传播研究领域的影响。