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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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Decolonializing discourse: Critical reflections on organizational discourse analysis
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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
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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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Managers doing leadership: The extra-ordinarization of the mundane
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 0018-7267 .- 1741-282X. ; 56:12, s. 1435-1459
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on a case study of managers in a large, international knowledge-intensive company this article suggests a rethinking of leadership, taking the mundane, almost trivial, aspects of what managers/leaders actually do seriously. In the study, the managers interviewed emphasized the importance of listening and informal chatting. Managers listening to subordinates are assumed to have various positive effects, e.g. people feel more respected, visible and less anonymous, and included in teamwork. Rather than certain acts being significant in themselves, it is their being done by managers that gives them a special, emotional value beyond their everyday significance. Leadership is conceptualized as the extra-ordinarization of the mundane.
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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
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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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- Alvesson, Mats, et al.
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The great disappearing act: difficulties in doing "leadership"
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Ingår i: Leadership Quarterly. - 1048-9843. ; 14:3, s. 359-381
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We address ideas and talk about leadership in a research and development (R&D) company. The meaning that middle and senior managers ascribe to leadership is explored. We show how initial claims about leadership values and style tend to break down when managers are asked to expand on how they perceive their leadership and account for what they actually do in this respect. We raise strong doubts about leadership as a construct saying something valuable and valid about what managers do in this kind of setting. We also argue that thinking about leadership needs to take seriously the possibility of the nonexistence of leadership as a distinct phenomenon with great relevance for understanding organizations and relations in workplaces.
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