The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse

David Grant, Cynthia Hardy, Cliff Oswick, Linda L Putnam, David Grant, Cynthia Hardy, Cliff Oswick, Linda L Putnam

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN: 9780761972259
• eBook ISBN: 9781446206935
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse has received the 2004 Outstanding Book Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association

`Organizational discourse is not a new topic but is one that has grown in significance and citations in recent years. Thanks to the new The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse there is now a definitive set of up-to-the-minute resources available, by distinguished as well as emergent researchers. It should have a prominent place on all organization researchers bookshelves? - Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney

`Organizational researchers interested in discursive philosophies, methods and practices will be grateful for the much-needed background and guidance this handbook provides? - Mary Jo Hatch, Professor, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. Co-author The Three Faces of Leadership: Manager, Artist, Priest (Blackwell)

`Discourse analysis has become increasingly popular in organizational studies over the past decade or two. The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse will make it even more popular by helping scholars of organizations understand the range of domains, methodologies, perspectives and focal organizational phenomena available to them within this analytic approach. Beyond classifying and describing current literature in the various areas, the chapters in this important new handbook suggest new directions for research using discourse analysis, a valuable service that should help novice and experienced researchers alike? - JoAnne Yates, Sloan School of Management

An increasingly significant body of management literature is applying discursive forms of analysis to a range of organizational issues. This emerging arena of research is not only important in providing new insights into processes of organizing, it has also informed and influenced the broader fields of organizational and management studies.

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse is the definitive text for those with research and teaching interests in the field of organizational discourse. It provides an important overview of the domains of study, methodologies and perspectives used in research on organizational discourse. It shows how discourse analysis has moved beyond its roots in literary theory to become an important approach in the study of organizations.

The editors of the Handbook, all renowned authors and experts in this field, have provided an invaluable resource on the application, importance and relevance of discourse to organizational issues for use by tutors and researchers working in the field, as well as providing important reference material for newcomers to this area. Each chapter, written by a leading author on their subject, covers an overview of the existing literature and also frames the future of the field in ways which challenge existing preconceptions.

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse is indispensable to the teaching, study and research of organizational discourse and will enable readers to develop a level of understanding of organizations commensurate with the most recent, state of the art, theoretical developments in the broader field of organization studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Editorial Board
• Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: Organizational Discourse: Exploring the Field
• Part I: Domains of Discourse
• Chapter 1 - Dialogue: Life and Death of the Organization
• Chapter 2 - Narratives, Stories and TExts
• Chapter 3 - Corporate Rhetoric as Organizational Discourse
• Chapter 4 - Tropes, Discourse and Organizing
• Part II: Methods and Perspectives
• Chapter 5 - Organizational Language in Use: Interaction Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Speech Act Schematics
• Chapter 6 - Discourse and Identities
• Chapter 7 - Interpretivist Approaches to Organizational Discourse
• Chapter 8 - Multi-levelled, Multi-method Approaches in Organizational Discourse
• Chapter 9 - Doing Research in Organizational Discourse: The Importance of Researcher Context
• Chapter 10 - Discourse, Power and Ideology: Unpacking the Critical Approach
• Chapter 11 - Deconstructing Discourse
• Part III: Discourses and Organizing
• Chapter 12 - Gender, Discourse and Organization: Framing a Shifting Relationship
• Chapter 13 - Discourse and Power
• Chapter 14 - Organizational Culture and Discourse
• Chapter 15 - Tools, Technologies and Organizational Interaction: The Emergence of 'Workplace Studies'
• Chapter 16 - Organizational Discourse and New Media: A Practice Perspective
• Chapter 17 - The Discourse of Globalization and the Globalization of Discourse
• Part IV: Reflections
• Turning to Discourse
• A Bias for Conversation: Acting Discursively in Organizations
• Getting Real about Organizational Discourse
• Index