The Language of Organization

My background includes undergraduate and Masters degrees in English Literature from the universities of Keele and Leeds , and a further Masters in Organization Development and PhD from what is now Sheffield Hallam University . More recently I was awarded a D.LItt from Durham University . I have held Chairs in Wollongong (NSW), Sunderland . Essex and Durham before moving to York . I also spent 2 years as a Visting Scholar at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Language/Organization - Robert Westwood and Stephen Linstead Introduction PART ONE: LANGUAGE, ORGANIZATION AND ACTION Talking Sense - David S Richards Ethnomethodology, Postmodern and Practical Action Language That Organizes - Ian Lennie Plans and Lists The Language of Strategy - Simon Lilley PART TWO: METAPHORS OF ORGANIZATION The Scripted Organization - Dan K[um]arreman Dramaturgy from Burke to Baudrillard Mining for Meaning - Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery Reading Organizations using Hermeneutic Philosophy Reclaiming Story in Organization - David M Boje, Rossana C Alvarez and Bruce Schooling Narratologies and Action Sciences PART THREE: LANGUAGE, KNOWLEDGE AND POWER The Prison-House of Language - Graham Sewell The Penitential Discourse of Organizational Power After Knowledge - Rolland Munro The Language of Information Rhetoric and Organizational Control - Stephen Linstead A Framework for Analysis PART FOUR: ORGANIZING SILENCE Appropriating the Other in the Discourses of Comparative Management - Robert Westwood Telling It Like It Is? - Joanna Brewis Gender, Language and Organizational Theory PART FIVE: WRITING, THEORY AND BEYOND The Language of Organization Theory - Robert Chia and Ian King Meaning beyond Language - Stephen Linstead and Robert Westwood Monstrous Openings