Organizational decision-making, discourse, and power: Integrating across contexts and scales

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-302

  Kwon, Winston ^a   Clarke, Ian ^b   Wodak, Ruth ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Discourse analysis; Discourse historical approach; Ethnography; Macro micro; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949133427     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481309337208     Document Type: Article

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