Abstract
Strategic Discourse across Organizational meetings: Towards a Systems Perspective Abstract This paper presents a tentative theoretical conception of how organizational meetings may be viewed as a system rather than as individual events. Perspectives from process metaphysics(Langley and Tsoukas, 2010), meso-discourse analysis (Alvesson and Karreman, 2000, 2011) and systems thinking (von Bertalanffy, 1969) are adopted, to explore and expand the theoretical resources available to conceptualise a ‘system of meetings’. The primary data draws from 130+ hours of recorded meeting proceedings, spanning 58 meeting events, from multiple sub-groups within a medium sized company.
| Original language | English |
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| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Event | PROS: Fourth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies - Kos, Greece Duration: 1 Jan 2012 → … |
Conference
| Conference | PROS: Fourth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies |
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| Country/Territory | Greece |
| City | Kos |
| Period | 1/01/12 → … |
| Other | Language and Communication @ Work: Discourse, Narrativity and Organizing |
Keywords
- organizational meetings
- systems perspective
- process metaphysics
- meso-discourse analysis
- systems thinking