Discursive activity in the boardroom: the role of the minutes in the construction of social realities
Fear, William (2012) Discursive activity in the boardroom: the role of the minutes in the construction of social realities. Group & Organization Management 37 (4), pp. 486-520. ISSN 1059-6011.
Abstract
The board functions at one of the interfaces between the environment and the organization and must take account of competing external and internal discourses. This article explores the institutionalizing activity manifest in the written organizational texts of board meetings of Local Health Boards in Wales. The focus of attention is how the localized discourse (1000 Lives) of an international, industry level, institution (Patient Safety), contributes to institutionalization and deinstitutionalization as recorded in the minutes of the board meetings. The conclusion is that as the boards develop and record their emerging discourse they construct and reconstruct the social reality of their organization. The organizations are composed of fragmented and competing discourses with no finality to meaning making, and continual conflict among multiple meanings looking for interpretive control, which the board [re]arranges into a seemingly coherent, unified, and meaningful discourse.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | boards, discourse, institutionalization |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Depositing User: | William Fear |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2015 15:17 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:15 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11789 |
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