Umfang:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780761956709
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9780857022035
Inhalt:
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 inches
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Organizational Discourse: Of Diversity, Dichotomy and Multi-disciplinarity -- Part I: Talk and Action -- 1 - A Discourse on Discourse: Redeeming the Meaning of Talk -- 2 - Workplace Conversations: The Text of Organizing -- 3 - Emotional Discourse in Organizations -- 4 - Talk and Action: Conversations and Narrative in Interorganizational Collaboration -- Part II: Stories and Sense-Making -- 5 - Same Old Story or Changing Stories? Folkloric, Modern and Postmodern Mutations -- 6 - As God Created the Earth ... A Saga that Makes Sense? -- 7 - The Struggle with Sense -- Part III: Discourse and Social Theory -- 8 - Linearity, Control and Death -- 9 - An Organization is a Conversation -- 10 - Metaphor, Language and Meaning -- 11 - Organizational Analysis as Discourse Analysis: A Critique -- Part IV: A Concluding Discourse -- 12 - Discourse, Organizations and Paradox -- References -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Grant, David Discourse and Organization London : SAGE Publications, Limited,c1998 ISBN 9780761956709
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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