Guest editorial: discourse and organizational change
Journal of Organizational Change Management
ISSN: 0953-4814
Article publication date: 1 February 2005
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to examine the contribution that discourse analysis can make to understanding organizational change.
Design/methodology/approach
It identifies five key contributions. Discourse analytic approaches: reveal the important role of discourse in the social construction of organizational change; demonstrate how the meaning attached to organizational change initiatives comes about as a result of a discursive process of negotiation among key actors; show that the discourses of change should be regarded as intertextual; provide a valuable multi‐disciplinary perspective on change; and exhibit a capacity, to generate fresh insights into a wide variety of organizational change related issues.
Findings
To illustrate these contributions the paper examines the five empirical studies included in this special issue. It discusses the potential for future discursive studies of organizational change phenomena and the implications of this for the field of organizational change more generally.
Originality/value
Provides an introduction to the special issue on discourse and organizational change.
Keywords
Citation
Grant, D., Michelson, G., Oswick, C. and Wailes, N. (2005), "Guest editorial: discourse and organizational change", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 6-15. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810510579814
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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