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Broad Overview of ODA - 0
Broad Overview of ODA - 0
Broad Overview of ODA - 0
Bill Fear
fearwj@cf.ac.uk
07891469869
Basic Principles, Concepts, and Definitions
•Introducing Discourse Analysis to Organizational Behaviour
DA can be of use to managers and is relevant to OB; talk and text are heavily
used; both OB and ODA focus on ‘improvement’/’effectiveness’…
The Relationship Between Action and Discourse
Nonetheless, Talk and text are the central medium of social science
research:
Interviews
Focus groups
Observation
Documents/reports
Questionnaires (eg. How questions are phrased)
“Qualitative research starts from and returns to words, talk, and texts as
meaningful representations of concepts” (2004: 455). Academy of
Management Journal 2009, Vol. 52, No. 5, 856–862.
[Loosely speaking] texts and the related processes are the linked set
of IVs and the Object is the DV although these is not necessarily a
causal link in the positivist sense.
DISCURSIVE PRACTICE
TEXT
“standardized ways of
referring to/constituting a certain kind of phenomenon” (p.
1134)
The ‘method’ of Discourse Analysis will depend on the approach taken initially
in relation to ODA
‘The theory and research challenge is to ascertain and trace the dialogue
across fragmented discourses from the local into the situated social, historical,
and economic contexts.’
Boje, Oswick and Ford (2004), LANGUAGE AND ORGANIZATION: THE DOING
OF DISCOURSE, Academy of Management Review Vol. 29, No. 4, 571–577
Approaches and Methods…?
•foci of engagement—we can use language as a vehicle for analyzing and exploring
organizations and organizing (language as a means to an end) or treating
organizations as sites for language analysis (language as an end in itself);