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Author Gran, Thorvald, author

Title How speech acting and the struggle of narratives generate organization / Thorvald Gran
Published New York : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
Management, organizations and society (London, England)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; PART I Questions and Approach; 1 Questions and Approach: Some Hypotheses, Some Already Suggested Answers; 2 A Realistic Paradigm; 3 Problem, Materials and Methods of Analysis; 4 Questions on Speech Acts, Narrative Struggles and the Organization of Norwegian Fisheries; PART II How Speech Acting in Context Organizes; 5 The Language Institution; 6 Speech Acting, Narratives and Organization; 7 How Institutions and Institutional Dynamics Affect Reasoning in the Gap; PART III Struggles over Organizing
8 Competing Narratives of the Firm in a Capital-Producing Market Economy9 The Speech-Act Theory of Innovativeness and Innovations; 10 Discourse Mode Changes in Organizations and Societies; PART IV Political and Private Organization; 11 From Private to Public and Political Power; 12 The Speech-Act Theory of Organization and New Technology in Norwegian Fisheries; PART V The Pressure for Democracy; 13 The Narrativity of Leadership and Management in Organizations; 14 How Competing Ideas of Society Permeate Organizations, Daily Life and Personalities in Norwegian Fisheries; Conclusion; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 12, 2017)
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Subject Organizational sociology.
Communication in organizations.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Communication in organizations
Organizational sociology
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 131726892X
9781317268925
9781317268918
1317268911
9781315637730
1315637731