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STRATEGIC ORGANIZATION
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 579-607Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1476127020951913
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discursive practices; employees; middle managers; participation; pluralistic organizations; strategy
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This study investigates how managers construct participation through discursive mechanisms, demonstrating the creation of different participation patterns through the use of different discursive practices. It shows how participation is linked to the interpretation of issues in conversation.
This article explores the discursive mechanisms by which managers include and exclude others from the broader strategizing process in the context of management meetings. Based on a longitudinal, inductive case study at a Scandinavian university, this article shows how managers construct participation by (1) assigning responsibility for project tasks to different actors and in different ways, and by (2) justifying responsibility assignments. As managers use different sets of discursive practices, the justifications remain straightforward or evolve over time, thereby creating different patterns of participation. This study contributes to the literature on the construction of participation by showing how managers use discursive mechanisms to enable alternative means to top-down strategizing, and demonstrating how participation is linked to the interpretation of issues in conversation.
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