Organizational Discourse Studies

Cynthia Hardy is a Professor in the Faculty of Management, McGill University. Her publications include Strategies for Retrenchment and Turnaround: The Politics of Survival (De Gruyter, 1990) and Managing Organizational Closure (Gower, 1985). Linda L. Putnam is a Research Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research interests include discourse analysis in organizations, negotiation and organizational conflict, and gender. She is the co-editor of twelve books, including The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication (2014), Building Theories of Organization: The Constitutive Role of Communication (2009) and the author/co-author of over 180 journal articles and book chapters. She is a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, a Fellow of the International Communication Association, and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Management.

VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS Antecedents The Language of Power and the Power of Language - Stewart R. Clegg Modernism, Post Modernism and Organizational Analysis 2: The Contribution of Michel Foucault - Gibson Burrell Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: An Introduction - Robert Cooper and Gibson Burrell Disciplinary Power in the Modern Corporation - Stanley Deetz Scene Setting Organizational Discourse - Dennis K. Mumby and Robin P. Clair Varieties of Discourse: On the Study of Organizations through Discourse Analysis - Mats Alvesson and Dan Karreman Discourse Analysis in Organizations: Issues and Concerns - Linda L. Putnam and Gail T. Fairhurst Theoretical Approaches Corporate Strategy, Organizations, and Subjectivity: A Critique - David Knights and Glenn Morgan Textual Agency: How Texts Do Things in Organizational Settings - Francois Cooren Discourse and Institutions - Nelson Phillips, Thomas B. Lawrence and Cynthia Hardy Finding the Organization in the Communication: Discourse as Action and Sense-making - James R. Taylor and Daniel Rabichaud Coordination as Energy-in-Conversation - Ryan W. Quinn and Jane E. Dutton On the Multi-modality, Materiality and Contingency of Organizational Discourse - Rick Iedema Critiques/Debates Discourse Analysis as Organizational Analysis - Robert Chia Organizational Discourse Analysis: Avoiding the Determinism-Voluntarism Trap - Charles Conrad Getting Real about Organizations Discourse - Mike Reed VOLUME TWO: METHODS Overviews of Studying Discourse Discourse Analysis as a Way of Analysing Naturally Occurring Talk - Jonathan Potter Against Discursive Imperialism, Empiricism and Constructionism: Thirty-Two Problems with Discourse Analysis - Ian Parker and Erica Burman Doing Research in Organizational Discourse: The Importance of Researcher Context - Craig Prichard, Deborah Jones and Ralph Stablein To Text or Context? Endotextual, Extotextual, and Multi-textual Approaches to Narrative and Discursive Organizational Studies - David Barry. Brigid Carroll and Hans Hansen Narrative and Stories Narratives of Individual and Organizational Identities - Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges Stories of the Storytelling Organization: A Postmodern analysis of Disney as 'Tamara-Land' - David M. Boje Critical Discourse Analysis and Deconstruction Critical Discourse Analysis - Norman Fairclough and Ruth Wodak Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis - Teun A. van Dijk Power and Siscourse in Organization Studies: Absence and the Dialectic of Control - Dennis K. Mumby and Cynthia Stohl Irony, Rhetoric and Metaphors Isn't It Ironic; Using Irony to Explore the Contradictions of Organizational Life - Angela Trethewey The Discourse of the Middle Ground: Citizen Shell Commits to Sustainable Development - Sharon M. Livesey Metaphor and Analogical Reasoning in Organization Theory - Cliff Oswick, Tom Keenoy and David Grant Different Types of Texts: Video, Cartoons, Conversations, Websites When Supervising Physicians See Patients: Strategies Used in Difficult Situations - Anita Pomerantz, B.J. Fehr and Jack Ende No Joking Matter: Discursive Struggle in the Canadian Refugee System - Cynthia Hardy and Nelson Phillips My Job Sucks: Examining Counterinstitutional Web Sites as Locations for Organizational Member Voice, Dissent and Resistance - Loril M. Gossett and Julian Kilker Reflexivity Reflexive Inquiry in Organizational research: Questions and Possibilities - Ann L. Cunliffe Management Consultant Talk: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Normalizing Discourse and Resistance - Susan Merilainen, Janne Tienari, Robyn Thomas and Annette Davies VOLUME THREE: APPLICATIONS AND CONTEXTS Identity and Gender The 'Feminine Advantage': A Discursive Analysis of the Invisibility of Older Women Workers - Susan Ainsworth Health on the Line: Identity and Disciplinary Control in Employee Occupational Health and Safety Discourse - Heather M. Zoller The Leader-Member Exchange Patterns of Women Leaders in Industry: A Discourse Analysis - Fail T. Fairhurst The Bureaucratization, Commodification and Privatization of Sexual Harrassment through Institutional Discourse: A Study of the Big Ten Universities - Robin P. Clair Emotion and Humour Becoming a Character for Commerce: Emotion Labour, Self-Subordination and Discursive Construction of Identity in a Total Instituion - Sarah J. Tracy 'Engineering Humour': Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-Floor Relations - David L. Collinson Participation and Resistance Change, Change or be Exchanged: The Discourse of Participation and the Manufacture of Identity - Gill Musson and Joanne Duberley Dialectical Tensions and Rhetorical Tropes in Negotiations - Linda L. Putnam The Ambivalent Dynamics of Secretarial 'Bitching': Control, Resistance and the Construction of Identity - Patty Sotirin and Heidi Gottfried Theorizing the Micro-politics of Resistance: New Public Management and Managerial Identities in the UK Public Services - Robyn Thomas and Annette Davies Institutional Change Discourse and Deinstitutionalization: The Decline of DDT - Steve Maguire and Cynthia Hardy Organizational Change Change in Organizational Culture: The Use of Linguistic Methods in a Corporate Acquisition - David T. Bastien Organizational Change as Discourse: Communicative Actions and Deep Structures in the Context of Information Technology Implementation - Loizos Heracleous and Michael Barrett Ideological Positioning in Organizational Change: The Dialectic of Control in a Merging Organization - Lisa A. Howard and Patricia Geist Discourse as a Strategic Resource - Cynthia Hardy, Ian Palmer and Nelson Phillips