In this article, we show how, using graph theory, we can make a content analysis of political discourse. Assumptions of this analysis are: • we have a corpus of speech of each party or candidate; • we consider that speech conveys economic, political, socio-cultural values, these...

This study proposes new ways of comparing discourses on population and argues that these discourses concern both management of the reproduction of human bodies on a massive scale, and competition at global and local levels for resources and/or an improved position in global and local...

Purpose: In this paper I explore the value of transdisciplinary dialogues for advancing critical perspectives on international business. Specifically, I consider how conceptualisations of transnational corporations as embedded social communities can be advanced through dialogues and...

Purpose – To illustrate methodologically and conceptually how understanding of entrepreneurial management can be enhancedthrough a discourse perspective which focuses on discourse as both noun andverb, encompassing discursive resources and discursive practices. Design/methodology/approach –...

Many students of public policy acknowledge the clash of values that defines the conflict between environmentalists and their opponents. However, less work has been done to examine ways in which the clash of values - represented in disparate discourses of nature - among environmentalists...

This article uses the case of the financialization of large law firms to develop debates about the process of the ‘capitalisation of everything' whereby financial logics spread both geographically between countries and sectorally from one industry to another. Drawing on work that analyses how...

This paper traces the discursive constructions through which refugees were produced as particular kinds of subjects in US social work discourse in the first half of the twentieth century. Prior to the onset of the Second World War, the refugee ideal was valorized in social work discourse to both...