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Sub-theme 37:
Transforming Others: The Discourse Strategies and Practices of
Change
Convenors:
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Session I: Thursday, July
10 – 11:00–12:30
(Up)Setting the Scene |
Chair: Shirley Leitch
Shirley Leitch, Judy Motion, Ian Palmer and Sally Davenport
Welcome and general introduction
David S. Grant and Richard Hall
Beyond internal-external distinctions of organizational discourse:
Understanding discourses as recursively intertextual
Discussant: Roger Dunbar
Claus D. Jacobs, David Oliver and Loizos Heracleous
Embodied realism and the construction of organizational
identities
Discussant: Ian Palmer
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Session
II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
Upsetting Stakeholders |
Chair: David Grant
Claire Dupont
Strategic discourses and changes in organizations: Effects of
power and context in social reality construction
Discussant: Robert Jones
Sally Davenport and Shirley Leitch
Theorizing the relational role of strategic ambiguity in changing
others
Discussant: John Sillince
Roger Dunbar and Cristina Cinici
How firms represent and communicate strategy to stockholders
Discussant: Patrick Dawson
John Sillince, Paula Jarzabkowski and Duncan Shaw
Using rhetoric to put the structure back in the garbage can
Discussant: Miruna Radu
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Session III: Friday, July
11 – 9:00–10:30
Others in Context |
Chair: Judy Motion
Patrick Dawson, Jane Farmer and Elizabeth Martin
The discourse of midwives and the strategies of politicians
Discussant: Pete Thomas
Peter McLean and James Reveley
Upsetting coal miners: Managerial concepts of performance
appraisal as a strategy for changing miners' work practices
Discussant: Virpi Sorsa
Robert Jones, Lucy Liu, James Latham and Michela Betta
Discourse strategies in lean manufacturing: Transforming others
within an overseas affiliate company
Discussant: Shirley Leitch
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Session IV: Friday, July
11
– 14:00–15:30
Entrepreneurs and Others |
Chair: Sally Davenport
Lena Olaison and Frederic Bill
Incubus paradox: Upsetting the SME-support practice?
Discussant: Claire Dupont
Miruna Radu and Renaud Redien-Collot
Transforming others? Persuasion and commitment discourse
strategies in search of impact: The French public discourse on
entrepreneurship
Discussant: Peter McLean
Jean Clarke, Joep Cornelissen and Alan Cienki
Creative entrepreneurship: How entrepreneurs use metaphors in
words and gestures to give sense to themselves and others
Discussant: Claus D. Jacobs
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Session V: Friday, July 11
– 16:15–17:45
Upsetting Discourses |
Chair: Ian Palmer
Shirley Leitch and Judy Motion
The discourse strategies of resistance: Entertainment, creative
play and pleasure
Discussant: David S. Grant
Jan Hewitt and Pete Thomas
Professionals and 'professionals': The ambiguous discourse of
professionalism and management in the NHS
Discussant: Jean Clarke
Virpi Sorsa and Eric Breit
Corruption and the (re)construction of spoiled identity: A
critical analysis of media reports
Discussant: Lena Olaison
Concluding Discussion
– no Sessions VI and VII –
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