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In March 1999, just months after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson was assassinated when a bomb exploded under her car. The attack was claimed by a loyalist paramilitary group but, over the last ten years, there have been several government enquiries into Nelson's murder. The latest one, which has been ongoing since 2005, has dramatically alleged that there may have been some security service collusion in the killing. Rosemary Nelson came to prominence for representing high-profile Republican and nationalist clients. It was no secret that her life was at risk and she had received many death threats -- but had always been refused police protection. ...
'Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction' reflects on the practice of analyzing discourse and the potential for revealing the processes of social construction that constitute social and organizational life.
Nelson Phillips' exciting new text is the first to provide a comprehensive overview and comparison of all the major linguistic methods used in management research, including discourse analysis, rhetorical analysis, narrative analysis, semiotics, and content analysis. Linguistic Methods in Management Research explores the reasons why linguistic methods have been increasingly adopted, what they do for researchers, and how the main methods/approaches are used in practice. It looks at their shared philosophical foundation and history, and differentiates them from other qualitative methods in terms of application and purpose. Numerous examples of first-rate research and clear step-by-step instructions on applying these methods make this text ideal for management students of qualitative methods and researchers.
"Containing cases decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania." (varies)
Across the social sciences, scholars are increasingly showing how people 'work' to construct organizational life, including the rules and routines that shape and enable organizational activity, the identities of people who occupy organizations, and the societal norms and assumptions that provide the context for organizational action. The idea of work emphasizes the ways in which people and groups engage in purposeful, reflexive efforts rooted in an awareness of organizational life as constructed in human interaction and changeable through human effort. Studies of these efforts have identified new forms of work including emotion work, identity work, boundary work, strategy work, institutional...
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