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ItemDiscourse and institutions(ACAD MANAGEMENT, 2004-10)
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ItemDiscourse and the Emergence of New Global Institutions(University of Tasmania, Faculty of Education, 2005)
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ItemOnline consultation: E-Democracy and E-Resistance in the Case of the Development Gateway(SAGE Publications, 2005-01-01)To explore the implications of the Internet for the relationship between organizational communication and power, this article compares two online forums established in response to the introduction of a new e-organization: the Development Gateway. The article analyzes postings to the forums to explore the capacity of the Internet to foster democracy, and to investigate how power and resistance are exercised through this medium. Findings show that, rather than equate resistance with participation, as some models of democracy do, the dynamics of power and resistance are more complex, and resistance and power can take participative and nonparticipative forms.!
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ItemInstitutional Entrepreneurship(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2008)
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ItemRepresentation and reflexivity(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2006-01-01)
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ItemIntroduction [The SAGE Handbook of Organization Studies](Sage Publications, 2006)In the first version of this Handbook we stated our intentions to provide a map for researchers to navigate their way around organization studies. In so doing, we used various criteria to help us decide which subjects to include in the volume: both old and new, mainstream and peripheral, normal and ‘contra’ science, and from established authors and relative newcomers. We hoped that the original edition would be a reaffirmation of the dominant streams of thought in organization studies as well as a celebration of some newer modes of inquiry (Clegg and Hardy 1996a). We also wanted to stimulate conversations within and between the different approaches to organization studies.
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ItemScaling up and bearing down in discourse analysis: Questions regarding textual agencies and their context(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2004-03)This paper assesses the contributions that discourse analysis and organizational discourse theory can make to our understanding of organization and organizing. By clarifying the theoretical assumptions that underpin this work, especially its social constructivist credentials, it is possible to show the potential of this methodology. A discursive approach can help answer a series of questions that interest organizational theorists: the constitution question of how local interactions develop organizing properties; the scaling-up question concerning the identification of characteristics that imbue certain texts and their authors with agency; as well as how grand discourses bear down on organizational life and how practices of consumption relate to acts of resistance.
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ItemInstitutional entrepreneurship in emerging fields: HIV/AIDA treatment advocacy in Canada(ACAD MANAGEMENT, 2004-10)
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ItemFiring blanks? An analysis of discursive struggle in HRM(WILEY, 2004-05)ABSTRACT We revisit Karen Legge's (2001) critique of HRM in which she argues that the attempt of modernist/positivist HRM research to show that HRM improves organizational performance is a ‘spent round’. We note that despite spirited challenges by Legge and others, the discourse of HRM is becoming increasingly dominant. Accordingly, we use discourse analysis to examine why this might be the case. Specifically, we analyse the texts produced in the engagement between Karen Legge and David Guest to show how modernist/positivist texts like those of Guest have been successful in constructing an identity for HRM and embedding it in the broader academic discourse concerning the employment relationship, while critical researchers like Legge face a number of difficulties in producing ‘counter‐texts’.