Capitalism

Abstract

Within organizational communication research and theory, capitalism most often appears either as a competitive market system or as a context of labor exploitation. Some scholarship seeks to make firms more competitive in a context of market driven, global competition. More frequently, capitalism is understood to be a context that hinders successful organizational communication by limiting full participation of a variety of people and their ideas in decision making. Recently, capitalism has gained significance because of changes in how communication participates in the production of wealth.