governmentality, discourse and power relations to the study of outsourcing arrangements, and will also incorporate the perspectives of … both client and supplier organizations. Using discourse analysis, the objective is to critically deconstruct and provide … fresh insight into the normative ‘outsourcing’ discourse that has grown up around global sourcing practices over the last 30 …

this period could be described as a change from an active to an activating approach. At the level of economic discourse … investigated these changes by focussing on two distinct reforms of labour market policies and carried out a critical discourse … analysis of the relevant public and academic discourse of economists. We find that the paradigm shift in economic thought was …