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How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization book cover

1st Edition

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization

By Thorvald Gran Copyright 2017
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge
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How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we are organized and how we influence each other and wield power. It is suggested that speaking is a major clue to organization and to the creation of new organizations. The task is to describe how speech-acting organizes. This book takes findings in... Read more
 

Part 1: Questions and Approach

1. Questions and Approach. Some Hypotheses. Some Already Suggested Answers

2. A Realistic Paradigm

3. Problem, Materials and Methods of Analysis

4. Questions of Speech-Acts, Narrative Struggles and the Organization of Norwegian Fisheries

Part 2: How Speech-Acting in Context Organizes

5. The Language Institution

6. Speech-Acting, Narratives and Organization

7. How Institutions and Institutional Dynamics Affect Reasoning in the Gap

Part 3: Struggles Over Organizing

8. Competing Narratives of the Firm in a Capital Producing Market Economy

9. The Speech Act Theory of Innovativeness and Innovations

10. Discourse Mode Changes in Organizations and Societies

Part 4: Political and Private Organization. Narratives, Identities and Power in Norwegian Fisheries

11. From Private to Public and Political Power

12. The Speech Act Theory of Organization and New Technology in Norwegian Fisheries

Part 5: The Pressure for Democracy

13. The Narrativity of Leadership and Management in Organizations

14. How Competing Ideas of Society Permeate Organizations, Daily Life and Personalities in Norwegian Fisheries

Conclusion

Biography

Thorvald Gran is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bergen, Norway.

 

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