A DISCURSIVE PERSPECTIVE ON LEGITIMATION STRATEGIES IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Vaara, Eero; Tienari, Janne
• 署名单位: Aalto University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 985-993
• 关键词: DISCOURSE; SENSEMAKING; GLOBALIZATION; management; POLITICS; CLOTHES

摘要

Few studies have examined legitimation in multinational corporations from a discursive perspective. To complement the existing institutional literature, we adopt a critical discourse analysis perspective that allows us to examine the microlevel processes of discursive legitimation. We provide an example of a media text-dealing with a production unit shutdown-to demonstrate how this perspective elucidates the various textual strategies used to legitimate multinational corporations' actions and their controversial consequences.