Discursive positioning and planned change in organizations

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dc.contributor.authorRyan S Bisel
dc.contributor.authorJ Kevin Barge
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-14T19:52:38Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-30T15:33:27Z
dc.date.available2016-01-14T19:52:38Z
dc.date.available2016-03-30T15:33:27Z
dc.date.issued2011-02-01
dc.description.abstractThis study uses discursive positioning theory to explore how planned change messages influence organizational members’ identity and the way they experienced organizational change. Based on an in-depth case study of a home healthcare and hospice organization that engaged in a multiyear planned change process, our analysis suggests that workers experienced salient change messages as constituting unfavorable identities, which were associated with the experiences of violation, recitation, habituation, or reservation. Our study also explores the way discursive and material contexts enabled and constrained the governing board’s change messages as they responded to external and internal audiences. We highlight the importance of viewing messaging as a process of information transfer as well as discursive construction, which has important implications for the way change agents approach issues of sense making, emotionality, resistance, and materiality during planned change processes.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewnoteshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guidelinesen_US
dc.identifier.citationBisel, R. S., & Barge, J. K. (2011). Discursive positioning and planned change in organizations. Human Relations, 64(2), 257-283. doi: 10.1177/0018726710375996en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0018726710375996en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/24833
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherHuman Relations
dc.rights.requestablefalseen_US
dc.subjectemotionen_US
dc.subjectmaterialityen_US
dc.subjectorganizational communicationen_US
dc.subjectorganizational discourseen_US
dc.subjectplanned change comunicationen_US
dc.subjectpositioning theoryen_US
dc.titleDiscursive positioning and planned change in organizationsen_US
dc.typeResearch Articleen_US

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