The Transformational Potential of Public Policy Discourse
研究了社会争议中公共政策、合法性与组织身份的关系，将公共政策视为改变话语的方式，为组织提供新的合法性规则，并探讨了权力与知识对民主的影响。
In this paper we examine the relationship between public policy, legitimacy and organizational identity in the context of a societal controversy. Public policy is theorized as a mode for effecting discourse transformations which offer new possibilities and rules for organizational legitimacy and societal relations. Our study highlights the legitimating function of public policy formation processes and possible legitimacy-appreciating and-depreciating identity attributes for organizations at the centre of controversy. We develop a macro-level understanding of discursive legitimacy and organizational identity, examining the broader societal context and associated democratic implications of power/knowledge and truth claims.