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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"management discourse"”.
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A critical discourse analysis of the new management discourse of virtual organisation
Promulgated as a revolutionary new paradigm of management and organisation, virtual organisation has allegedly ushered forth an indispensable set of new organisational structures, practices, and relations that would have the power to effect not only radical changes in management and organisation, …
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The Battle of Economic Ideas: A Critical Analysis of Financial Crisis Management Discourse in the UK, 2007-8
… research strategy, drawing on poststructuralist discourse theories. I deploy this approach in a close and systematic analysis of UK elite narratives on economic management, my corpus comprising the discourse produced by official political and economic institutions and agents, including …
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In Search of Marketing Management : A Study of Managing in Marketing.
… work literature and within the marketing management discourse. Perspectives on both the character of the 'content' and 'conduct' of marketing manager work are sought. Several marketing managers, operating in diverse commercial contexts, were interviewed and observed. The field research …
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Managerial Decisions: A Discursive Analysis
… and product quality. A Foucaultian approach to discourse analysis was used to assess the trajectories of systems of management thought; nature and influence of changes in management discourse, and the resulting vacillation in power/knowledge relations within these three organisations. …
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To be of use : creative practice across the front lines of economic self-sufficiency programs
… is a common theme in contemporary public management discourse. The contributions of frontline human service workers, however, have received relatively scant attention. Despite their prevalence among those charged with implementing social welfare policies and the acknowledged importance of …
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Potential for co-management approaches to strengthen livelihoods of forest-dependent communities: a case study of the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Service, Kenya
… in the wide ranging literature advocating co-management approaches to management of forestry, and related natural resources, in developing countries is that co-management has the potential to improve the livelihood outcomes of forest-dependent communities. Consequently, co-management has …
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GLOBALIZATION AND "HAIER": AN ORGANIZATIONAL DISCOURSE STUDY OF A LEADING CHINA-BASED TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION
This dissertation is a qualitative discourse analysis study. The study seeks to understand roles of organizational discourse and management discourse in stimulating strategic organizational change, and facilitating organizational culture dynamics and identity development. Specifically, this study …
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Organisational diversity and HACCP enactment: A study of risk within the Australian food industry
This thesis examines the diversity management issues that arise from a risk management foray. It enters the organisational world and explores the social consequences of adopting a measure known as Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point or, to use the colloquial term, HACCP. Academically, it …
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Global heritage cities : managing complexity of cultural world heritage sites in global cities
This doctoral research focuses on the management of historic urban areas in global cities that are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which are referred as global heritage cities hereafter. In this rapidly globalising world that is market-driven, the binary approach of managing change in …
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Breaking down the silos: tales from a jazz musician and management educator
… reflect on my roles as jazz musician and management educator and discuss how two bodies of knowledge have informed each other over the course of my career. At the core of my works as a management educator, is the application of the jazz metaphor – largely in the strategic marketing …
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The emergence of cultural policy in Zimbabwe 1984-1997
… synchronic study of local cultural praxis. Discourse analysis of conflict and consensus operating at grassroots level is followed by accounts of the increasing management capacity of some groups as they become professional performers in international arenas. Contrasting instances of …