Discourse and the study of organization: Toward a structurational perspective
梳理了组织话语的三种现有路径(管理主义、解释主义和批判主义),指出它们各自偏重能动性或结构,并借鉴吉登斯的结构化理论,提出话语是沟通行动与结构属性的二元体,通过行动者的解释图式递归连接。
Existing approaches to organizational discourse, which we label as 'managerialist', 'interpretive' and 'critical', either privilege agency at the expense of structure or the other way around. This tension reflects that between approaches to discourse in the social sciences more generally but is sharper in the organizational context, where discourse is typically temporally and contextually specific and imbued with attributions of instrumental intent. As the basis for a more sophisticated understanding of organizational discourse, we draw on the work of Giddens to develop a structurational conceptualization in which discourse is viewed as a duality of communicative actions and structural properties, recursively linked through the modality of actors' interpretive schemes. We conclude by exploring some of the theoretical implications of this conceptualization and its consequences for the methodology of organizational discourse analysis.abs>