The role of communication and information in the organizational environment has definitely triggered the development of different conceptual and theoretical approaches. However, the non-applicability of relevant communicative processes in such environments, mainly within complex situations, makes researchers think about a new concept of organizational communication. In this article, the theoretical foundations of communication by Habermas and by Cohen, as well as some contributions of Dominique Genelot, will be analyzed. These foundations are to be used as a basis for organizational communication, as well as a strategic element for accomplishing the goals and intentionality of organizations, trying to overcome the limits of reductionist approaches of the traditional concept influenced mainly by an instrumental view of communication and sustained by the theory of information and by theoretical corpora.
business communication; organizational communication; theoretical foundations