Strategy, Discourse and Practice: The Intensification of Power
采用福柯式话语分析方法,研究一家全球电信公司的策略如何通过话语和实践强化权力,塑造与策略一致的对象和主体,并探讨抵抗形式。
Abstract We adopt a Foucauldian approach to discourse to show how power relations shape the constitution of strategy. By exploring two particular discourses associated with the strategy of a global telecommunications company, our study shows how the power effects of discourses are intensified through particular discursive and material practices, leading to the production of objects and subjects that are clearly aligned with the strategy. In this way, our study contributes to understanding: the mechanisms whereby discourse bears down on strategy through intensification practices; different forms of resistance; and the way in which strategy objects and subjects reproduce (or undermine) discourse.