Discourse and organization

edited by David Grant, Tom Keenoy and Cliff Oswick

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 struct

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Alternative title:	Discourse + organization
Year of publication:	1998
Other Persons:	Oswick, Cliff (contributor) ; Grant, David (contributor) ; Keenoy, Tom (contributor)
Publisher:	London : Sage Publications
Subject:	Diskurstheorie \| Discourse theory \| Wirtschaftsgeschichte \| Economic history \| Organisationsforschung \| Organizational research \| Organisationstheorie \| Organization theory \| Unternehmensorganisation \| Business organization
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (viii, 248 p) ill 24 cm
Series:	Organization Studies
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-243) and index 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 Theory8 - 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 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web Umschlagt.: Discourse + organization
ISBN:	0-7619-5670-0 ; 0-7619-5671-9 ; 978-0-7619-5670-9 ; 978-0-85702-203-5 ; 978-0-7619-5670-9
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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