1st Edition

Visual and Multimodal Research in Organization and Management Studies

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

This volume brings together two hitherto disparate domains of scholarly inquiry: organization and management studies on the one hand, and the study of visual and multimodal communication on the other. Within organization and management studies it has been recognized that organizational reality and communication are becoming increasingly visual, and, more generally, multimodal, whether in digital... Read more

Part I: Introduction



1 Purpose of this volume



2 A social semiotic approach to multimodality





Part II: Strategies for multimodal scholarly inquiry



3 Approaches, methods, and research agenda: An overview





4 The archaeological approach



5 The practice approach





6 The strategic approach





7 The dialogical approach





8 The documenting approach





9 Summary: Towards multi-approach studies in multimodal organization research





Part III: Application



10 Introduction to four case studies





11 The power of diagrams





12 The use of logos in post-merger identity construction at Aalto University





13 Multimodal meaning-making in online shopping





14 Multimodal legitimation and corporate social responsibility (CSR)





Part IV: Discussion



15 The way ahead: Discussion and conclusion



 

Biography

Markus A. Höllerer is Professor of Public Management and Governance at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, and Professor of Organization Theory at UNSW Business School, Australia.



Theo van Leeuwen is Professor at the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark.



Dennis Jancsary is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Organization Studies at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.



Renate E. Meyer is Professor of Organization Studies at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, and part-time Professor of Institutional Theory at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.



Thomas Hestbæk Andersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark



Eero Vaara is Professor of Organization and Management in the Department of Management Studies at Aalto University School of Business, Finland. He is a permanent Visiting Professor at EMLYON Business School, France, and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Lancaster University, UK.