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ItemDiscourse and institutionsPhillips, N ; Lawrence, TB ; Hardy, C (ACAD MANAGEMENT, 2004-10)
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ItemOnline consultation: E-Democracy and E-Resistance in the Case of the Development GatewayAinsworth, S ; Harley, B (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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ItemScaling up and bearing down in discourse analysis: Questions regarding textual agencies and their contextHardy, C (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 CanadaMaguire, S ; Hardy, C ; Lawrence, TB (ACAD MANAGEMENT, 2004-10)
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ItemFiring blanks? An analysis of discursive struggle in HRMHarley, B ; Hardy, C (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’.
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ItemReflecting on Reflexivity: Reflexive Textual Practices in Organization and Management TheoryAlvesson, M ; Hardy, C ; Harley, B (Wiley, 2008-05)abstract This paper identifies four sets of textual practices that researchers in the field of organization and management theory (OMT) have used in their attempts to be reflexive. We characterize them as multi‐perspective, multi‐voicing, positioning and destabilizing. We show how each set of practices can help to produce reflexive research, but also how each embodies limitations and paradoxes. Finally, we consider the interplay among these sets of practices to develop ideas for new avenues for reflexive practice by OMT researchers.
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ItemThe enterprising self: An unsuitable job for an older workerAinsworth, S ; Hardy, C (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2008-05)The discourse of enterprise has permeated contemporary society with significant implications for government, organizations and individuals alike. In particular, enterprise prescribes an ideal identity, that of the `enterprising self'. This study examines the ability of the older worker to become part of this enterprise culture through the analysis of an Australian government inquiry. Our findings show that certain categories of identity—such as older workers—are unable to don the mantle of enterprise, although they are nonetheless subjected to it, helping to explain why the discourse of enterprise is so persistent and durable.