Kwon, I. and Clarke, R. and Wodak, R. (2009) Organizational decision-making, discourse, and power: integrating across contexts and scales. Discourse and Communication, 3 (3). pp. 273-302. ISSN 1750-4813
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Research has downplayed the complex discursive processes and practices through which decisions are constructed and blurs the relationship between macro- and micro-levels. The article argues for a critical and ecologically valid approach that articulates how discursive practices are influenced by, and in turn shape, the organizational settings in which they occur. It makes a methodological contribution using decision-making episodes of a senior management team meeting of a multinational company to demonstrate the insights that can be obtained from embedding the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) within a longitudinal ethnography. The approach illuminates the latent and intricate power dynamics and range of potentials of agents, triangulating micro-level discursive strategies with macro-level historical sources and background knowledge on the social and political fields. The article also makes a theoretical contribution by demonstrating the dependency of decision outcomes on often unpredictable and subtle changes in the power–context relationship.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Discourse and Communication |
| Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language |
| ID Code: | 27252 |
| Deposited By: | Prof Ruth Wodak |
| Deposited On: | 09 Oct 2009 12:11 |
| Refereed?: | No |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2013 14:50 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/27252 |
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