
Mats Alvesson
Professor

Organizational discourse analysis - well done or too rare? A reply to our critics
Author
Summary, in English
In this article we respond to Bargiela-Chiappini, Iedema and Mumby.We notice that there is considerable agreement concerning the state of the art of organizational discourse analysis, while also discussing the disagreements. We expand on some of the ontological issues inherent in our argument, further discuss the character of reductionism in organizational discourse analysis, the trappings of a priori assumptions, and, finally, argue that our critics themselves, perhaps inadvertently, tend to repeat the problematic moves we identified in our original article.
Department/s
- Department of Business Administration
- Institute of Economic Research
Publishing year
2011
Language
English
Pages
1193-1202
Publication/Series
Human Relations
Volume
64
Issue
9
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Topic
- Economics and Business
- Business Administration
Keywords
- communication
- discourse analysis
- methodology
- ontology
- organization
- studies
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0018-7267