This article presents a constitutive approach to the study of organizational contradictions,
dialectics, paradoxes, and tensions. In particular, it highlights five constitutive dimensions …

Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical
Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the …

The study of paradox in strategy and organization studies has grown rapidly over the last 25
years. Paradox, as contradictory yet interrelated opposites that exist simultaneously and …

This article explores and extends the concept of hybridity to understand current changes in
public services organizations, notably as seen from an organizational studies perspective …

We examine the 'identity work'of manager–professional 'hybrids', specifically medical
professionals in managerial roles in the British National Health Service, to maintain and …

An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians;
what politicians actually do on'the backstage'in political organizations. The book offers …

A growing body of literature now exists concerning the social construction of leadership. This
literature draws on a variety of definitions of social constructionism, multiple constructs, and …

Although studies of organization certainly need to include analysis of discourse, one
prominent tendency within current research on organizational discourse limits its value for …

In this paper we provide an overview of research into organizational discourse, making a
tentative distinction between organizational discourse studies (emerging from organization …

Our study examines how interdependent actors in a professionalized context interpret the co-
occurrence of a professional logic and a policy-driven logic. The empirical setting comprises …