Organizational Decision-making, Discourse, and Power: Integrating Across Contexts and Scales  

Oleh:

Kwon, Winston ; Clarke, Ian ; Wodak, Ruth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse and Communication ( Full Text) vol. 3 no. 3 (Aug. 2009), page 273-302.
Topik: decision-making; discourse analysis; discourse-historical approach; ethnography; macro-micro; power
Fulltext: Vol 3, no (3), page 273–302.pdf (784.35KB)

Isi artikel

Research has downplayed the complex discursive processes and practices through which decisions are constructed and blurs the relationship between macro- and micro-levels. The article argues for a critical and ecologically valid approach that articulates how discursive practices are influenced by, and in turn shape, the organizational settings in which they occur. It makes a methodological contribution using decision-making episodes of a senior management team meeting of a multinational company to demonstrate the insights that can be obtained from embedding the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) within a longitudinal ethnography. The approach illuminates the latent and intricate power dynamics and range of potentials of agents, triangulating micro-level discursive strategies with macro-level historical sources and background knowledge on the social and political fields. The article also makes a theoretical contribution by demonstrating the dependency of decision outcomes on often unpredictable and subtle changes in the power–context relationship.

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