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critically examined as forms of narratives. Findings – Storytelling gives the organisation the possibility to change its goals …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to expand understanding about the rhetoric of synergy and how it is manifested in a global corporation, Tubworld (name changed), during a period of mergers and acquisitions. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology is based on an analysis of visual...
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While the literature has emphasized the literal and the narrative within organizations, this article will consider the visual and the imaginal. Organizations are known and experienced through images, and these images must be considered if organizational culture is to be understood or changed. We...
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This paper explores the retrospective construction of atrocity narratives of organizational change in primary … industries of the Latrobe Valley, located in southeast Australia. Within their narratives, participants discuss various forms of … workplace violence aimed at employees by management and, in some cases, other employees. In addition, shifting narratives from …
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specifically on the construction of conversion stories. These are particularly positive narratives that consider change as a … narratives, thus highlighting the benefits of change while suppressing any negative aspects. This paper draws attention to the … advancement at work and suggest that beneath the positive exterior of the conversion narratives lies a theme of silence, which may …
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Purpose – This paper aims to examine the contribution that discourse analysis can make to understanding organizational change. Design/methodology/approach – It identifies five key contributions. Discourse analytic approaches: reveal the important role of discourse in the social construction...
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Purpose – Following Bakhtin, organizational discourse scholars have examined ways in which organizational actors draw on and negotiate historical texts, weave them with contemporary ones, and transform them into future discourses. This paper examines how this practice occurs discursively as...
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Purpose – To examine the post 9/11 communication of the bond‐trading firm, Cantor Fitzgerald and its CEO Howard Lutnick, according to the discourse of renewal framework. Design/methodology/approach – This case‐study of the discourse of renewal draws upon the messages and statements made...
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Purpose – This invited article aims to show how the papers in the special issue highlight the advantages of using discourse analysis in order to contribute to our understanding of organizational change. Design/methodology/approach – The article begins by exploring the traditional...
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identity narratives at the UK‐based specialist tour operator Laskarina Holidays. Design/methodology/approach – Predicated on a … featuring three distinctive but interwoven collective identity narratives (which are labelled “utilitarian”, “normative” and … part, constituted by alterations in people's understandings, encoded in narratives, and shared in conversations …
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