Scaling up and Bearing Down in Discourse Analysis: Questions Regarding Textual Agencies and Their Context
评估话语分析和组织话语理论对理解组织与组织化的贡献，澄清其社会建构主义假设，并探讨本地互动如何发展组织属性、文本如何获得能动性以及宏大话语如何影响组织生活。
This paper assesses the contributions that discourse analysis and organizational discourse theory can make to our understanding of organization and organizing. By clarifying the theoretical assumptions that underpin this work, especially its social constructivist credentials, it is possible to show the potential of this methodology. A discursive approach can help answer a series of questions that interest organizational theorists: the constitution question of how local interactions develop organizing properties; the scaling-up question concerning the identification of characteristics that imbue certain texts and their authors with agency; as well as how grand discourses bear down on organizational life and how practices of consumption relate to acts of resistance.