This text covers the areas of talk and action, stories and sensemaking, and discourse and social theory. It also evaluates organizational discourse as a means of enriching our understanding of organization

Expert author Joanne Martin examines a variety of conflicting ways to study cultures in organizations, including different theoretical orientations, political ideologies (managerial, critical, and apparently neutral); methods (qualitative, quantitative, and hybrid approaches), and styles of...

About the contributors -- Introduction -- Postfeminism: negotiating equality with tradition in contemporary organizations / Patricia Lewis, Yvonne Benschop and Ruth Simpson -- Postfeminism and organization -- Postfeminism and gendered (im)mobilities / Patricia Lewis -- Doing-it-all : exploring...

Recently, the issue of metaphors in organizational studies has fascinated researchers’ attention and interests, leading to a substantial body of research generating theoretical understandings, philosophical concepts, insightful meanings, and experiential interpretations. In this review paper,...