The Language of Organization

My background includes undergraduate and Masters degrees in English Literature from the universities of Keele and Leeds , and a further Masters in Organization Development and PhD from what is now Sheffield Hallam University . More recently I was awarded a D.LItt from Durham University . I have held Chairs in Wollongong (NSW), Sunderland . Essex and Durham before moving to York . I also spent 2 years as a Visting Scholar at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

• Language/Organization - Robert Westwood and Stephen LinsteadIntroductionPART ONE: LANGUAGE, ORGANIZATION AND ACTIONTalking Sense - David S RichardsEthnomethodology, Postmodern and Practical ActionLanguage That Organizes - Ian LenniePlans and ListsThe Language of Strategy - Simon LilleyPART TWO: METAPHORS OF ORGANIZATIONThe Scripted Organization - Dan K[um]arremanDramaturgy from Burke to BaudrillardMining for Meaning - Tojo Joseph ThatchenkeryReading Organizations using Hermeneutic PhilosophyReclaiming Story in Organization - David M Boje, Rossana C Alvarez and Bruce SchoolingNarratologies and Action SciencesPART THREE: LANGUAGE, KNOWLEDGE AND POWERThe Prison-House of Language - Graham SewellThe Penitential Discourse of Organizational PowerAfter Knowledge - Rolland MunroThe Language of InformationRhetoric and Organizational Control - Stephen LinsteadA Framework for AnalysisPART FOUR: ORGANIZING SILENCEAppropriating the Other in the Discourses of Comparative Management - Robert WestwoodTelling It Like It Is? - Joanna BrewisGender, Language and Organizational TheoryPART FIVE: WRITING, THEORY AND BEYONDThe Language of Organization Theory - Robert Chia and Ian KingMeaning beyond Language - Stephen Linstead and Robert WestwoodMonstrous Openings

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