Organizational Analysis as Discourse Analysis: A Critique
- 1 January 1998
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
This chapter evaluates the contribution of Foucauldian discourse analysis to our understanding of organization. The argument is divided into three broad segments. First, a general overview describes the major ontological and analytical features of Foucauldian discourse analysis and the manner in which it has been carried into organizational analysis in recent years. Second, a thematic component highlights three major research areas where discourse analysis has been extremely influential in contemporary organizational analysis; that is, in relation to organizational subjectivities or identities ('technologies of the self), organizational surveillance and control ('technologies of discipline') and organizational change ('technologies of government'). And third, the chapter concludes by identifying the crucial features of Foucauldian discourse analysis ...Keywords
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