Leadership discourse in action: A textual study of organizational change in a government of Canada department

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 42-77

  Harrison, Claire ^a   Young, Lynne ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bureaucratic discourse; Critical discourse analysis; Discourse analysis; Discursive practices; Leadership discourse; New capitalism; Organizational change; Organizational discourse; Phasal analysis; Systemic functional linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144256233     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651904269730     Document Type: Article

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