This major work from renowned scholars in the field, analyzes the role of language and symbolic media and shows how this enables us to move to new levels of understanding of contemporary organizational issues. An introductory chapter examines the role and growing importance of discourse in the...

This text covers the areas of talk and action, stories and sensemaking, and discourse and social theory. It also evaluates organizational discourse as a means of enriching our understanding of organization

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the contribution that discourse analysis can make to understanding organizational change. Design/methodology/approach – It identifies five key contributions. Discourse analytic approaches: reveal the important role of discourse in the social construction...

Purpose – This paper aims to review the discursive formation of organizational change and to consider the possible directions that change management initiatives may take in the future. Design/methodology/approach – This closing piece identifies a traditional change discourse and an emerging...