The Language of Organization

AvRobert Westwood,Stephen Andrew Linstead

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

The importance of communication for organizations has been an ongoing concern since management was first theorized. Yet language has tended to be viewed as simply a medium of communication - without language per se being theoretically problematized. This book enables a more critical exploration of the major theoretical positions on language and organization, explaining why language warrants a more central and considered place in organization studies.

Language and Organization explains how various perspectives on the relationship between language and organization can be represented and explored. Concerned with issues such as power, knowledge and organizational discourse, this book will provide essential new links for a proper conceptualisation and understanding of organizations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-09-28
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:720 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:370
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9780761953340

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My background includes undergraduate and Masters degrees in English Literature from the universities of Keele and Leeds , and a further Masters in Organization Development and PhD from what is now Sheffield Hallam University . More recently I was awarded a D.LItt from Durham University . I have held Chairs in Wollongong (NSW), Sunderland . Essex and Durham before moving to York . I also spent 2 years as a Visting Scholar at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Innehållsförteckning

Language/Organization - Robert Westwood and Stephen LinsteadIntroductionPART ONE: LANGUAGE, ORGANIZATION AND ACTIONTalking Sense - David S RichardsEthnomethodology, Postmodern and Practical ActionLanguage That Organizes - Ian LenniePlans and ListsThe Language of Strategy - Simon LilleyPART TWO: METAPHORS OF ORGANIZATIONThe Scripted Organization - Dan K[um]arremanDramaturgy from Burke to BaudrillardMining for Meaning - Tojo Joseph ThatchenkeryReading Organizations using Hermeneutic PhilosophyReclaiming Story in Organization - David M Boje, Rossana C Alvarez and Bruce SchoolingNarratologies and Action SciencesPART THREE: LANGUAGE, KNOWLEDGE AND POWERThe Prison-House of Language - Graham SewellThe Penitential Discourse of Organizational PowerAfter Knowledge - Rolland MunroThe Language of InformationRhetoric and Organizational Control - Stephen LinsteadA Framework for AnalysisPART FOUR: ORGANIZING SILENCEAppropriating the Other in the Discourses of Comparative Management - Robert WestwoodTelling It Like It Is? - Joanna BrewisGender, Language and Organizational TheoryPART FIVE: WRITING, THEORY AND BEYONDThe Language of Organization Theory - Robert Chia and Ian KingMeaning beyond Language - Stephen Linstead and Robert WestwoodMonstrous Openings