Organizational Discourse Studies

by David Grant

• ISBN13: 9781849207362
• ISBN10: 1849207364
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-19
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Work on organizational discourse studies has mushroomed in the past several decades, spanning various disciplines and encompassing a wide array of organizational topics. In contrast to microlevel studies of individual language and communication, this three-volume collection focuses on discourse at organizational levels and is an invaluable resource to anyone interested in how methods of discourse analysis can be applied to gain insight into the workings of an organization. Assembled and introduced by an international editorial team of leading scholars in the area, each volume builds on the foundations of the last. Volume one traces the evolution and current state of theoretical developments in organizational discourse studies, showing how its methodological foundations have evolved with the social sciences as a whole. Volume two teaches the reader the key techniques used in discourse analysis in organizations, and volume three provides examples of empirical studies where these methods have created an understanding of specific organizational phenomena, including emotion, humour, change and resistance.

Table of Contents

Theoretical Developments

Antecedents

The Language of Power and the Power of Language

Modernism, Post Modernism and Organizational Analysis 2: The Contribution of Michel Foucault

Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: An Introduction

Disciplinary Power in the Modern Corporation

Scene Setting

Organizational Discourse

Varieties of Discourse: On the Study of Organizations through Discourse Analysis

Discourse Analysis in Organizations: Issues and Concerns

Theoretical Approaches

Corporate Strategy, Organizations, and Subjectivity: a Critique

Textual Agency: How Texts Do Things in Organizational Settings

Discourse and Institutions

Finding the Organization in the Communication: Discourse as Action and Sense-making

Coordination as Energy-in-Conversation

On the Multi-modality, Materiality and Contingency of Organizational Discourse

Critiques/Debates

Discourse Analysis as Organizational Analysis

Organizational Discourse Analysis: Avoiding the Determinism-Voluntarism Trap

Getting Real about Organizations Discourse

Methods

Overviews of Studying Discourse

Discourse Analysis as a Way of Analysing Naturally Occurring Talk

Against Discursive Imperialism, Empiricism and Constructionism: Thirty-Two Problems with Discourse Analysis

Doing Research in Organizational Discourse: The Importance of Researcher Context

To Text or Context? Endotextual, Extotextual, and Multi-textual Approaches to Narrative and Discursive Organizational Studies

Narrative and Stories

Narratives of Individual and Organizational Identities

Stories of the Storytelling Organization: a Postmodern analysis of Disney as 'Tamara-Land'

Critical Discourse Analysis and Deconstruction

Critical Discourse Analysis

Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis

Power and Siscourse in Organization Studies: Absence and the Dialectic of Control

Irony, Rhetoric and Metaphors

Isn't It Ironic; Using Irony to Explore the Contradictions of Organizational Life

The Discourse of the Middle Ground: Citizen Shell Commits to Sustainable Development

Metaphor and Analogical Reasoning in Organization Theory

Different Types of Texts: Video, Cartoons, Conversations, Websites

When Supervising Physicians See Patients: Strategies Used in Difficult Situations

No Joking Matter: Discursive Struggle in the Canadian Refugee System

My Job Sucks: Examining Counterinstitutional Web Sites as Locations for Organizational Member Voice, Dissent and Resistance

Reflexivity

Reflexive Inquiry in Organizational research: Questions and Possibilities

Management Consultant Talk: a Cross-Cultural Comparison of Normalizing Discourse and Resistance

Applications and Contexts

Identity and Gender

The 'Feminine Advantage': a Discursive Analysis of the Invisibility of Older Women Workers

Health on the Line: Identity and Disciplinary Control in Employee Occupational Health and Safety Discourse

The Leader-Member Exchange Patterns of Women Leaders in Industry: a Discourse Analysis

The Bureaucratization, Commodification and Privatization of Sexual Harrassment through Institutional Discourse: a Study of the Big Ten Universities

Emotion and Humour

Becoming a Character for Commerce: Emotion Labour, Self-Subordination and Discursive Construction of Identity in a Total Instituion

'Engineering Humour': Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-Floor Relations

Participation and Resistance

Change, Change or be Exchanged: The Discourse of Participation and the Manufacture of Identity

Dialectical Tensions and Rhetorical Tropes in Negotiations

The Ambivalent Dynamics of Secretarial 'Bitching': Control, Resistance and the Construction of Identity

Theorizing the Micro-politics of Resistance: New Public Management and Managerial Identities in the UK Public Services

Institutional Change

Discourse and Deinstitutionalization: The Decline of Ddt

Organizational Change

Change in Organizational Culture: The Use of Linguistic Methods in a Corporate Acquisition

Organizational Change as Discourse: Communicative Actions and Deep Structures in the Context of Information Technology Implementation

Ideological Positioning in Organizational Change: The Dialectic of Control in a Merging Organization

Discourse as a Strategic Resource

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