In this short piece we take issue with the current separatist tendencies that are being expressed in certain parts of the queer community. We illustrate how this compares with central ideas in proto-queer thought and queer theory, and how it risks undermining the possibility of a queer dialogue...

This chapter addresses growing concerns that, despite being a radically intentioned community, Critical Management Studies (CMS) lacks an orientation to achieve pragmatic change. In response I argue that the failure to address the continuing marginalisation of the subaltern is key to CMS being...

1. The discourses of capitalism -- 2. Ideology, common sense, and hegemony -- 3. Discourse itineraries of economic representations -- 4. Common-sense beliefs : "The only system that ever does work" -- 5. Hegemonic discourses of capitalism : "Nothing is perfect" -- 6. Counter-hegemonic discourses...

Product placement constitutes an amply used tactic in a marketer’s Integrated Marketing Communications roster. Its merits in circumventing negative attitudes to advertising and in integrating brand values in sociocultural narratives in TV and cinematic filmic discourses have been repeatedly...

The article develops a model which conceptualizes headquarter-subsidiary relations in the multinational corporation as a multilevel discursive struggle between key managers. At the first level, the relations are conceptualized as a discursive struggle over decisions and actions using...

This article examines the centrality of discourse in achieving managerially relevant outcomes, with a focus on the in-situ performance context of corporate storytellers. The Ricoeurian concept of speech act, capturing both the intentionality of organizational discourse and the social context of...

Drawing from a broad range of sources, we define and discuss the two primary ways of contemplating issues related to environmental economics, namely interventionism and libertarianism. We then interpret a cellular automaton as a model that allows for either approach, as well as anarchy, and show...

Die hier skizzierte historische Evaluation früherer Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurse ist natürlich nur ein Ansatz, um die im Hauptbeitrag erkennbare theoretisch-methodische Lücke zwischen philosophischem Credo und praxeologischer Umsetzung zu schließen.