Peripheral Vision
Organization Studies · 2005 · Volume 26 · Issue 6
Abstract
Although studies of organization certainly need to include analysis of discourse, one prominent tendency within current research on organizational discourse limits its value for organizational studies through a commitment to postmodernism and extreme versions of social constructivism. I argue that a version of critical discourse analysis based on a critical realist social ontology is potentially of greater value to organization studies, and I refer in particular to the contribution it can make to research on organizational change.
Keywords
discourse analysis, critical realism, organizational change
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