'getting people on board': Discursive leadership for consensus building in team meetings

Discourse and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 592-644

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

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

context analysis; critical discourse analysis (CDA); discursive leadership strategies; ethnography; meetings; transactional leadership; transformational leadership; workplace discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051935119     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926511405410     Document Type: Article

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