• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Peripheral Vision : Discourse Analysis in Organization Studies: The Case for Critical Realism : Discourse Analysis in Organization Studies: The Case for Critical Realism
  • Contributor: Fairclough, Norman
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 2005
  • Published in: Organization Studies, 26 (2005) 6, Seite 915-939
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/0170840605054610
  • ISSN: 0170-8406; 1741-3044
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  • Description: Although studies of organization certainly need to include analysis of discourse, one prominent tendency within current research on organizational discourse limits its value for organizational studies through a commitment to postmodernism and extreme versions of social constructivism. I argue that a version of critical discourse analysis based on a critical realist social ontology is potentially of greater value to organization studies, and I refer in particular to the contribution it can make to research on organizational change.