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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Decolonializing discourse: Critical reflections on organizational discourse analysis
- 2011
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 0018-7267 .- 1741-282X. ; 64:9, s. 1121-1146
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Organizational discourse has emerged as a large research field and references to discourse are numerous. As with all dominating approaches problematizations of assumptions are important. This article, partly a follow up of the authors' frequently cited 2000 Human Relations article, provides a critical and perhaps provocative overview of some of the more recent work and tendencies within the field. It is argued that discourse continues to be used in vague and all-embracing ways, where the constitutive effects of discourse are taken for granted rather than problematized and explored. The article identifies three particular problems prevalent in the current organizational discourse literature: reductionism, overpacking, and colonization and suggests three analytical strategies to overcome these problems: counter-balancing concepts - aiming to avoid seeing 'everything' as discourse - relativizing muscularity - being more open about discourse's constitutive effects - and disconnecting discourse and Discourse through much more disciplined use of discourse vocabulary.
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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Management is the solution: Now what was the problem? On the fragile basis for managerialism
- 2011
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0956-5221. ; 27:4, s. 349-361
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper critically investigates the impact and meaning of managerialism in a pharmaceutical firm by exploring its shaky basis. Managers' explanations of the failure in research leading to new products showed considerable variety. This reflects the absence of any shared understanding of research inefficiencies and difficulties to determine the roots of the problems. Despite this people blame bad management and put hope to improved responsibility of managers. The study highlights the ambiguity of causes of the research inefficiencies and how this is suppressed as well as exploited by the introduction of a vague managerialist agenda. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Organizational discourse analysis - well done or too rare? A reply to our critics
- 2011
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 0018-7267 .- 1741-282X. ; 64:9, s. 1193-1202
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we respond to Bargiela-Chiappini, Iedema and Mumby.We notice that there is considerable agreement concerning the state of the art of organizational discourse analysis, while also discussing the disagreements. We expand on some of the ontological issues inherent in our argument, further discuss the character of reductionism in organizational discourse analysis, the trappings of a priori assumptions, and, finally, argue that our critics themselves, perhaps inadvertently, tend to repeat the problematic moves we identified in our original article.
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- Sveningsson, Stefan, et al.
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Ledarskap
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Accomplishments in consultancy work: ambiguity and distribution of praise and blame
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Ingår i: Discourses of Deficit.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter addresses identity constructions in the context of consultant-client relations in consultancy work. The focus is on how consultants and client managers use the image of each other as negative mirrors of themselves, making collaboration tension-ridden and complicated. In particular we emphasize identity dynamics around the attribution of credit and blame, drawing attention to the evaluatory and moral aspects of identity constructions in ambiguous, boundary-spanning work contexts.
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