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作者:Brannen, MY
作者单位:California State University System; San Jose State University
摘要:Foreignness is generally viewed as a liability for the multinational enterprise, negatively affecting strategic fit and the successful transfer of firm assets abroad. Using semiotics-the study of how language systems convey meaning-and the Walt Disney Company's experiences in internationalization, I develop the notion of semantic fit as a necessary complement to strategic fit and formalize a conceptual model of recontextualization-the process by which firm assets take on new meanings in distin...
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作者:Green, SE Jr
作者单位:University of Southern California
摘要:I use rhetorical theory to reconceptualize the diffusion of managerial practices. Specifically, I argue that the diffusion of a practice depends on the discursive justifications used to rationalize it. When such justifications are accepted and taken for granted, a practice reaches a state of institutionalization. Furthermore, I propose that changes in justifications and diffusion provide a basis for explaining institutionalization as both a process and a state. I then develop several propositi...
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作者:Von Glinow, MA; Shapiro, DL; Brett, JM
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida International University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Northwestern University
摘要:We highlight linguistic-related challenges in multicultural teams that increase the likelihood of emotional conflict, and also highlight the difficulty of finding words in emotional situations because of the nonlinear, fragmented, image-driven qualities of these circumstances. As a result, we question whether team members embroiled in emotional conflict ought to be advised to talk (discuss their feelings with the goal of repairing frayed relationships), whether this meaning of talk is shared b...
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作者:Colignon, RA
作者单位:Duquesne University
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作者:Phillips, N; Lawrence, TB; Hardy, C
作者单位:University of Cambridge; Simon Fraser University; University of Melbourne
摘要:We argue that the processes underlying institutionalization have not been investigated adequately and that discourse analysis provides a coherent framework for such investigation. Accordingly, we develop a discursive model of institutionalization that highlights the relationships among texts, discourse, institutions, and action. Based on this discursive model, we propose a set of conditions under which institutionalization processes are most likely to occur, and we conclude the article with an...
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作者:Robichaud, D; Giroux, H; Taylor, JR
作者单位:Universite de Montreal; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要:We argue that the implications of the recursivity of language largely have been overlooked in the literature exploring the role of language in organizing. Exploiting a narrative interpretation of sensemaking in language, we illustrate how the metaconversation is constituted, showing how it simultaneously admits and reconstructs the local conversations of the organization into an encompassing conversation, where the identity of the organization as a whole is generated continually. The central p...
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作者:Boje, DM; Oswick, C; Ford, JD
作者单位:New Mexico State University; University of Leicester; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University