Table of Contents

Introduction - David Grant et al
Organizational Discourse: Exploring the Field
PART ONE: DOMAINS OF DISCOURSE
Dialogue - Kenneth J Gergen, Mary M Gergen and Frank J Barrett
Life and Death of the Organization
Narratives, Stories and Texts - Yiannis Gabriel
Corporate Rhetoric as Organizational Discourse - George Cheney et al
Tropes, Discourse and Organizing - Cliff Oswick, Linda L Putnam and Tom Keenoy
PART TWO: METHODS AND PERSPECTIVES
Organizational Language in Use - Gail T Fairhurst and Fran[ce]cois Cooren
Interaction Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Speech Act Schematics
Discourse and Identities - Susan Ainsworth and Cynthia Hardy
Interpretivist Approaches to Organizational Discourse - Loizos Th. Heracleous
Multi-Levelled, Multi-Method Approaches to Organizational Discourse - Kirsten Broadfoot, Stanley Deetz and Donald Anderson
Doing Research in Organizational Discourse - Craig Prichard, Deborah Jones and Ralph Stablein
The Importance of Researcher Context
Discourse, Power and Ideology - Dennis K Mumby
Unpacking the Critical Approach
Deconstructing Discourse - Martin Kilduff and Mihaela Kelemen
PART THREE: DISCOURSES AND ORGANIZING
Gender, Discourse and Organization - Karen Lee Ashcraft
Framing a Shifting Relationship
Discourse and Power - Cynthia Hardy and Nelson Phillips
Organizational Culture and Discourse - Mats Alvesson
Tools, Technologies and Organizational Interaction - Christian Heath, Paul Luff and Hubert Knoblauch
The Emergence of Workplace Studies
Organizational Discourse and New Media - Pablo J Boczkowski and Wanda J Orlikowski
A Practice Perspective
The Discourse of Globalization and the Globalization of Discourse - Norman Fairclough and Pete Thomas
PART FOUR: REFLECTIONS - Barbara Czarniawska, Karl E Weick and Mike Reed
Turning to Discourse - Barbara Czarniawska
A Bias for Conversation - Karl E Weick
Acting Discursively in Organizations
Getting Real about Organizational Discourse - Mike Reed

About the Author

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). Cliff Oswick is Professor of Organization Theory at The Business School (formerly known as Cass), City, University of London (and previously served as Deputy Dean between 2011 and 2016).  Before joining Cass, he spent 4 years at Queen Mary, University of London as Dean of the Faculty of Law & Social Sciences.  His research interests focus on the study of organizing processes and non-traditional approaches to organizational change.  He has published over 150 academic articles and contributions to edited volumes. He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Change Management, a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, an Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, an elected member of the National Training Laboratory, former chair of the board of trustees for the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (2014-2020), and previously served as chair of the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management (2015-2020).  Cliff has also undertaken a variety of executive education and consultancy assignments for private and public sector organizations.  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.