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Special Issue: Journal of Management Studies
Strategy as Discourse: Its Significance, Challenges and Future Directions
Submission Deadline 31 October 2009
Co-Editors:
Julia Balogun, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Claus Jacobs, St Gallen University
<st1:personname w:st="on">Paula Jarzabkowski</st1:personname>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Aston</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Saku Mantere & Eero Vaara, Hanken, Finland
Strategic management in organizations is to a significant extent discursive and rhetorical in nature. However, while the role of language in general, and of discourse and communication in particular, has been acknowledged in previous research in strategic management, this area remains theoretically underdeveloped and empirically under-explored. This special issue argues that it is time to take language seriously in strategy research. Its purpose, therefore, is to publish theoretically enriched and methodologically sound discourse based studies of strategic management that advance the strategic management field as a whole and build upon and extend alternative approaches such as the economic, behavioural and cognitive traditions.
We encourage articles which explore, but are not limited to, questions such as:
o How do particular forms of speech and discourse shape the conduct and outcome of strategic conversations?
o How are strategy texts authored, edited, translated, and consumed in organizations?
o How does the discourse of strategy construct organizations and individuals as competent strategic actors; and, what are the implications of the discourse of strategy for organizational and individual behavior?
o How are actors able to draw upon and use the discourse of strategy as a resource?
o How do the discursive practices of strategy forge subjectivity in organizations? How do individuals in different parts of the organization use strategy language to advance their interests? How do the discursive practices of actors enable or constrain participation in strategy work?
The full call for papers is attached and will also shortly be available on the JMS website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0022-2380&site=1 .
The deadline for papers is 31st October 2009.
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<st1:personname w:st="on">Paula Jarzabkowski</st1:personname>
Professor of Strategic Management
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