Discourse and Organization
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Discourse and Organization

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Discourse and Organization

About this book

This major work from renowned scholars in the field, analyzes the role of language and symbolic media and shows how this enables us to move to new levels of understanding of contemporary organizational issues.

An introductory chapter examines the role and growing importance of discourse in the study of organizations. It critically evaluates the contributions of various disciplines and defines organizational discourse as a subject area. The chapters in the first section, Talk and Action, explore the relationship between discourse, action and interaction and their impact on organizational structure and behaviour. Stories and Sensemaking focuses on the analytical potential of the `story? as a means of illuminating the ways in which organizational members make sense of their experience of organization.

Discourse and Organization includes contributions which demonstrate the fundamental significance of linguistic uSAGE and discursive construction to the ontologies of `organization?. Finally, a concluding discourse explores the claims and limitations of organizational discourse as a means of enriching our understanding of organization.

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Yes, you can access Discourse and Organization by David Grant, Tom W Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, David Grant,Tom W Keenoy,Cliff Oswick in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Management. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
1998
Print ISBN
9780761956716, 9780761956709
eBook ISBN
9780857022035
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Management
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Introduction: Organizational Discourse: Of Diversity, Dichotomy and Multi-disciplinarity
  4. Part I: Talk and Action
  5. 1 - A Discourse on Discourse: Redeeming the Meaning of Talk
  6. 2 - Workplace Conversations: The Text of Organizing
  7. 3 - Emotional Discourse in Organizations
  8. 4 - Talk and Action: Conversations and Narrative in Interorganizational Collaboration
  9. Part II: Stories and Sense-Making
  10. 5 - Same Old Story or Changing Stories? Folkloric, Modern and Postmodern Mutations
  11. 6 - As God Created the Earth ... A Saga that Makes Sense?
  12. 7 - The Struggle with Sense
  13. Part III: Discourse and Social Theory
  14. 8 - Linearity, Control and Death
  15. 9 - An Organization is a Conversation
  16. 10 - Metaphor, Language and Meaning
  17. 11 - Organizational Analysis as Discourse Analysis: A Critique
  18. Part IV: A Concluding Discourse
  19. 12 - Discourse, Organizations and Paradox
  20. References
  21. Index