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The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse has received the 2004 Outstanding Book Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association. An increasingly significant body of management literature is applying discursive forms of analysis to a range of organizational issues. This emerging arena of research is not only important in providing new insights into processes of organizing, it has also informed and influenced the broader fields of organizational and management studies. The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse is the definitive text for those with research and teaching interests in the field of organizational discourse. It provides an important overview of the domains of study, methodologies and perspectives used in research on organizational discourse. It shows how discourse analysis has moved beyond its roots in literary theory to become an important approach in the study of organizations. The editors of the Handbook, all renowned authors and experts in this field, have provided an invaluable resource on the application, importance and relevance of discourse to organizational issues for use by tutors and researchers working in the field, as well as providing important reference material for newcomers to this area. Each chapter, written by a leading author on their subject, covers an overview of the existing literature and also frames the future of the field in ways which challenge existing preconceptions. The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse is indispensable to the teaching, study and research of organizational discourse and will enable readers to develop a level of understanding of organizations commensurate with the most recent, state of the art, theoretical developments in the broader field of organization studies.
The Discourse of Globalization and the Globalization of Discourse
The Discourse of Globalization and the Globalization of Discourse
Globalization has been described as an idea whose time has come (Held et al, 1999). It has been pored over by economists, social scientists, geographers and business analysts, and many, often imprecise, definitions of the phenomenon have been offered. It has generated fierce debate between adherents to at least three standpoints, and the meaning to be derived from empirical data has been argued over to such a degree that what the term ‘globalization’ actually describes of the world around us is far from clear and very much further from consensus. The term has been used somewhat glibly at times, but also has been wielded as a heavyweight rhetorical ...
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