Pulp and paper fiction: On the discursive legitimation of global industrial restructuring

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 789-813

  Vaara, Eero ^a,b   Tienari, Janne ^c   Laurila, Juha ^d  

^a HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^c LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Discourse; Globalization; Industrial restructuring; Legitimation; Media

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745035230     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606061071     Document Type: Review

References (50)

1. Aldrich, Howard E., and C. Marlene Fiol 1994 'Fools rush in? The institutional context of industry creation'. Academy of Management Review 19/4: 645-670.
2. Alvesson, Mats, and Dan Kärreman 2000 'Varieties of discourse: On the study of organizations through discourse analyses'. Human Relations 53/9: 1125-1151.
3. Arndt, Margarete, and Barbara Bigelow 2000 'Presenting structural innovation in an institutional environment: Hospitals' use of impression management'. Administrative Science Quarterly 45/3: 494-524.
4. Ashforth, Blake E., and Barrie W. Gibbs 1990 'The double-edge of organizational legitimation'. Organization Science 1/2: 177-194.
5. Berger, Peter, and Thomas Luckmann 1966 The social construction of reality. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
6. Bourdieu, Pierre 1998 On television. New York: The New Press.
7. Brown, Andrew D. 1998 'Narrative, politics and legitimacy in an IT implementation'. Journal of Management Studies 35/1: 35-58.
8. Brown, Andrew D., and Matthew R. Jones 2000 'Honorable members and dishonourable deeds: Sensemaking, impression management and legitimation in the "Arms of Iraq Affair"'. Human Relations 53/5: 655-690.
9. Comtois, Elise, Jean-Louis Denis, and Ann Langley 2004 'Rhetorics of efficiency, fashion and politics: Hospital mergers in Quebec'. Management Learning 35/3: 303-320.
10. Creed, Douglas, Maureen Scully, and John Austin 2002 'Clothes make the person? The tailoring of legitimating accounts and the social construction of identity'. Organization Science 13/5: 475-496.
11. Dowling, J., and Jeffrey Pfeffer 1975 'Organizational legitimacy: Social values and organizational behavior'. Pacific Sociological Review 18/1: 122-136.
12. Dunford Richard, and Ian Palmer 1996 'Metaphors in popular management discourse: The case of corporate restructuring' in Metaphor and organizations. D. Grant and C. Oswick (eds), 96-109. London: Sage.
13. Elsbach, Kimberley, and Robert I. Sutton 1992 'Acquiring organizational legitimacy through illegitimate actions: A marriage of institutional and impression management theories'. Academy of Management Journal 35/4: 699-738.
14. Fairclough, Norman 1995 Media discourse. London: Edward Arnold.
15. Fairclough, Norman 1997 Critical discourse analysis: The critical study of language. London: Longman.
16. Fairclough, Norman 2000 'Language and neoliberalism' (Guest editorial). Discourse and Society 11/2: 147-148.
17. Fairclough, Norman 2003 Analysing discourse: Textual analysis for social research. London: Longman.
18. Fairclough, Norman, and Wodak, Ruth 1997 'Critical discourse analysis' in Discourse as social interaction. T. van Dijk (ed.), 258-284. London: Sage.
19. Foucault, Michel 1980 Power/knowledge. Brighton: Harvester.
20. Giddens, Anthony 1984 The constitution of society. Cambridge: Polity.
21. Grant, David, Tom Keenoy, and Cliff Oswick editors 1998 Discourse and organization. London: Sage.
22. Grant, David, Cynthia Hardy, Cliff Oswick, and Linda Putnam editors 2004 Organizational discourse. London: Sage.
23. Habermas, Jürgen 1975 Legitimation crisis. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
24. Hardy, Cynthia, and Nelson Phillips 1998 'Strategies of engagement: Lessons from the critical examination of collaboration and conflict in an interorganizational domain'. Organization Science 9/2: 217-230.
25. Hardy, Cynthia, David Grant, Tom Keenoy, Cliff Oswick, and Nelson Phillips editors 2004 Organization Studies 25/1: Special issue on 'Organizational discourse'.
26. Hybels, Ralph C. 1995 'On legitimacy, legitimation, and organizations: A critical review and integrative theoretical model'. Academy of ManagementBest Papers Proceedings, 241-245.
27. Kitchener, Martin 2003 'Mobilizing the logic of managerialism in professional fields: The case of academic health care mergers'. Organization Studies 23/3: 391-420.
28. Kostova, Tatiana, and Srilata Zaheer 1999 'Organizational legitimacy under conditions of complexity: The case of the multinational enterprise'. Academy of Management Review 24/1: 64-81.
29. Lamertz, Kai, and Joel A. C. Baum 1998 'The legitimacy of organizational downsizing in Canada: An analysis of explanatory media accounts'. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences 15/1: 93-107.
30. Laurila, Juha, and Minna Ropponen 2003 'Institutional conditioning of foreign expansion: Some evidence from Finnish-based paper industry firms, 1994-2000'. Journal of Management Studies 40/3: 721-747.
31. Lawrence, Thomas B., Nelson Phillips, and Cynthia Hardy 1999 'Watching whale watching: Exploring the discursive foundations of collaborative relationships'. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 35/4: 479-502.
32. Mazza, Carmelo, and José Luis Alvarez 2000 'Haute couture and pret-à-porter. The popular press and the diffusion of management practices'. Organization Studies 21/3: 567-588.
33. Phillips, Nelson, and Cynthia Hardy 2002 Discourse analysis: Investigating processes of social construction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
34. Rojo, Luisa Martin, and Teun van Dijk 1997 "There was a problem, and it was solved!" Legitimating the expulsion of "illegal" migrants in Spanish parliamentary discourse'. Discourse and Society 8/4: 523-566.
35. Scott, Richard 1995 Institutions and organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
36. Suchman, Mark C. 1995 'Managing legitimacy: Strategic and institutional approaches'. Academy of Management Review 20/3: 729-757.
37. Vaara, Eero 2002 'On the discursive construction of success/failure in narratives of post-merger integration'. Organization Studies 23/2: 213-250.
38. Vaara, Eero, and Janne Tienari 2002 'Justification, legitimization and naturalization of mergers and acquisitions: A critical discourse analysis of media texts'. Organization 9/2: 275-303.
39. Vaara, Eero, and Janne Tienari 2004 'Critical discourse analysis as a methodology for international business studies' in Handbook of qualitative research methods for international business. R. Marschan-Piekkari and C. Welch (eds), 342-359. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
40. Van Dijk, Teun 1990 News as discourse. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
41. Van Dijk, Teun 1997 Discourse studies: A multidisciplinary introduction, Vols 1 and 2. London: Sage.
42. Van Dijk, Teun 1998 Ideology: A multidisciplinary approach. London: Sage.
43. Van Leeuwen, Theo 'The grammar of legitimation'. Unpublished manuscript.
44. Van Leeuwen, Theo, and Ruth Wodak 1999 'Legitimizing immigration control: A discourse-historical perspective'. Discourse Studies 1/1: 83-118.
45. Watson, Tony J. 1998 'Managerial sensemaking and occupational identities in Britain and Italy: The role of management magazines in the process of discursive construction'. Journal of Management Studies 35/3: 285-301.
46. Westwood, Robertz, and Stephen Linstead 2001 The language of organization. London: Sage.
47. Wodak, Ruth 2004 'Critical discourse analysis' in Qualitative research practice. C. Seale, G. Gobo, J. F. Gubrium and D. Silverman (eds), 197-213. London: Sage.
48. Wodak, Ruth, and Michael Meyer 2002 Methods of critical discourse analysis. London: Sage.
49. Wodak, Ruth, Rudolf de Cillia, Martin Reisigl, and Karin Liebhart 1999 The discursive construction of national identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
50. Zimmerman, Monica A., and Gerald J. Zeitz 2002 'Beyond survival: Achieving new venture growth by building legitimacy'. Academy of Management Review 27/3: 414-443.