Micro-Level Discursive Strategies for Constructing Shared Views around Strategic Issues in Team Meetings

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 265-290

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

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical Discourse Analysis; Discourse Historical Approach; Discursive strategies; Linguistic devices; Meetings; Shared views; Strategic issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892952617     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12036     Document Type: Article

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