The Organizational Setting, Use and Institutionalization of Argumentation Repertoires
提出一个组织论证理论，认为组织会制度化高度专业化的论证套路，这些套路既约束成员言论，又成为成员争夺权力和影响力的资源，尤其在组织变革中发挥关键作用。
Although the association between management and argumentation has been a long‐standing one, very little research has been undertaken into the organizational setting, institutionalization and use of argumentation. Argumentation is still considered to be undertaken between isolated individuals or within political communities. This paper aims to provide a first attempt at an organizational theory of argumentation. It suggests that organizations institutionalize very specialized repertoires of arguments, which constrain what their members can say, and which are discourse resources which are subject to appropriation and manipulation by organization members to increase their power and influence. One example of the importance of managerial control of argumentation is during organizational change, where specific argumentation subrepertoires are postulated to facilitate the transition between successive stages of change