Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss a critical review of the role of rhetoric and narratives … comprehend the underpinnings of rhetoric. Originality/value – The paper further discusses the role of rhetoric and narratives in … management research and practice and also explores the relationships between rhetoric and narratives.  …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a critical view of rhetoric, science, scientific research, and … management that discloses the role of rhetoric in these fields and that offers a conceptual framework for this special issue of … that emphasize the role of rhetoric in science and in management, the paper offers a systematic approach on the foundations …

persuasion (rhetoric), knowledge and practice of virtues (protreptics), and knowledge of science, society and conceptual and …

empirical source. Findings – The most important finding is the managers' overall reluctance towards rhetoric. According to the … rhetoric is not believed to be of particular importance when managing strategic change. Research limitations …/implications – Senior managers' potentially negative attitude concerning rhetoric should be taken into account when researchers situate …

Varela, and Bakhtin's work on dialogue in understanding successful organizational rhetoric. Design … “organizational closure” will govern the domain of communication and therefore also any act in rhetoric. Originality/value – This is a …

qualitative analysis of the rhetoric of communication forged by global power games and applied to symbolic strategies of … division of labor and local cultural contexts can turn “sweatshops” into “ boudoirs ” subverting the rhetoric of Western … resistance to the dominant rhetoric of multimedia industries on the level of coding symbolic meanings and disseminating them …

comparative argumentation analysis of two consulting reports in each case, one written by a legitimizer and one by a devil … consultants invest in being seen as impartial by making their research approaches transparent and their argumentation balanced to … used in this research to make their method more transparent and to balance their argumentation to get commitment from …

discussion of the literature in the fields of brand management, meanings, rhetoric, and narratives. Findings – Brand managers are …