2026 François Cooren: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	47	3353	3086	194	184	173	10881

Overview

François Cooren is a researcher affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their work prominently spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant emphasis also on Arts and Humanities. Their contributions reflect a multidisciplinary approach combining organizational studies and language analysis.

The main research topics covered by Cooren include:

Management and Organizational Studies
Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Information Systems Theories and Implementation
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Ethics in Business and Education
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting

Their research also touches subfields such as Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Philosophy, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Several frequent publication venues highlight the dissemination channels for Cooren's work. These include:

Communiquer Revue de communication sociale et publique
Language and Dialogue
Management Communication Quarterly
Human Relations
Communication et organisation

Recent papers authored or co-authored by François Cooren include:

"Beyond Entanglement: (Socio-) Materiality and Organization Studies" (2020, Organization Theory)
"Speaking about vision, talking in the name of so much more: A methodological framework for ventriloquial analyses in organization studies" (2020, Organization Studies)
"The work of conflict mediation: Actors, vectors, and communicative relationality" (2021, Human Relations)
"Reconciling dialogue and propagation" (2020, Language and Dialogue)
"How Artefacts Do Leadership: A Ventriloquial Analysis" (2021, Management Communication Quarterly)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cooren reflect a network of research connections in related domains:

Boris H. J. M. Brummans
Nicolas Bencherki
Thomas Martine
Matthieu Balay
James R. Taylor

Best Publications

1 Constitutional Amendments: “Materializing” Organizational Communication

Karen Lee Ashcraft;Timothy R. Kuhn;François Cooren

962
Citations
Communication, Organizing and Organization: An Overview and Introduction to the Special Issue

Francois Cooren;Timothy Kuhn;Joep P. Cornelissen;Timothy Adrian Robert Clark

909
Citations
Textual Agency: How Texts Do Things in Organizational Settings

Unknown

640
Citations
The Communicational Basis of Organization: Between the Conversation and the Text

James R. Taylor;Francois Cooren;Nicole Giroux;Daniel Robichaud

550
Citations
The Organizing Property of Communication

Francois Cooren

522
Citations
Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation and Ventriloquism

François Cooren

479
Citations
Communication Theory at the Center: Ventriloquism and the Communicative Constitution of Reality

François Cooren

445
Citations
The Three Schools of CCO Thinking: Interactive Dialogue and Systematic Comparison

Dennis Schoeneborn;Steffen Blaschke;Steffen Blaschke;François Cooren;Robert D. McPhee

379
Citations
Communication as Organizing : Empirical and Theoretical Explorations in the Dynamic of Text and Conversation

Francois Cooren;James R. Taylor;Elizabeth J. Van Every

346
Citations
The Organizational World as a Plenum of Agencies

Francois Cooren;James R. Taylor;Elizabeth J. Van Every

333
Citations
The Accomplishment of Authority Through Presentification How Authority Is Distributed Among and Negotiated by Organizational Members

Chantal Benoit-Barné;François Cooren

300
Citations
What makes communication ‘organizational’?: How the many voices of a collectivity become the one voice of an organization

James R. Taylor;François Cooren

293
Citations
The coproduction of organizational presence: A study of Médecins Sans Frontières in action

François Cooren;Boris H.J.M. Brummans;Damien Charrieras

204
Citations
Organizational Discourse: Communication and Constitution

François Cooren

200
Citations
The Communicative Achievement of Collective Minding: Analysis of Board Meeting Excerpts

François Cooren

188
Citations
Alternative Perspectives on the Role of Text and Agency in Constituting Organizations

Linda L. Putnam;FranÁois Cooren

171
Citations
Discursiveness, Contradiction, and Unintended Consequences in Successive Downsizings

Gail T. Fairhurst;François Cooren;Daniel J. Cahill

170
Citations
Interacting and organizing : analyses of a management meeting

François Cooren

155
Citations
Communication as Ventriloquism: A Grounded-in-Action Approach to the Study of Organizational Tensions

François Cooren;Frédérik Matte;Chantal Benoit-Barné;Boris H. J. M. Brummans

150
Citations
The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism

Timothy Kuhn;Karen Lee Ashcraft;François Cooren

133
Citations
Having to be: The possessive constitution of organization

Nicolas Bencherki;François Cooren

130
Citations
Polyphony, Ventriloquism, and Constitution: In Dialogue with Bakhtin

François Cooren;Sergeiy Sandler

107
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail T. Fairhurst University of Cincinnati

David Seidl University of Zurich

Eero Vaara University of Oxford

Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus

Nancy J. Adler McGill University

External Links

Wikipedia of François Cooren Personal website of François Cooren Google Scholar page

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