The different discourses that pervade the stories of founders and owner-managers when talking about organizational emergence are explored, along with the ways in which these understandings, meanings, and concepts are socially constructed to envision, enact, and realize organizational emergence....

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...