2005/05/25 by Norman Fairclough · 3 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · #Accounting and Organizational Management #Computer science #Constructivism (international relations) #Critical discourse analysis #Epistemology #Knowledge management #Management Theory and Practice #Management and Organizational Studies #Ontology #Organization studies #Organizational analysis #Organizational change #Organizational commitment #Organizational studies #Philosophy #Political science #Postmodernism #Psychology #Public relations #Social psychology #Sociology #Value (mathematics)
paper · doi:10.1177/0170840605054610
openalex publication_date 2005/05/25 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
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.