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 –...

In broad terms the critical tradition in organization studies (Marsden & Townley, 1996) is concerned with understanding and questioning the elaboration of power relations in worksites, particularly as they induce oppressive and exploitative practices. This paper begins by outlining some of the...

This book treats seriously one of the fundamental trends characterizing contemporary institutions--namely, the inability to establish a ground from which purpose and direction can be defined. It questions the core trope of "permanent change" and exposes its emptiness in a thorough and considered...

The purpose of this article was to analyze the discourse of public administration in the field of Tourism development. the scope of this research is all the texts expressed by government officials in the tourism sector in the four historical pends of the regime in the Islamic Republic of Iran,...