David Grant

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between discourse and interorganizational collaboration and argue that effective collaboration can be understood as the product of sets of conversations that draw on existing discourses.

TL;DR: The importance of researcher context Discourse, Power and Ideology - Dennis K Mumby Unpacking the Critical Approach Deconstructing Discourse - Martin Kilduff and Mihaela Kelemen.

TL;DR: A growing body of literature now exists concerning the social construction of leadership as discussed by the authors, which draws on a variety of definitions of social constructionism, multiple constructs, and an array of perspectives, approaches, and methods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the increasing significance of organizational discourse as a field of inquiry and identify several ways in which organizational discourse contributes to the study and understanding of organizations, and also identify a number of challenges faced by organizational discourse advocates, suggesting that in some cases they are not insurmountable while in others they are unwarranted.

TL;DR: This paper argued that metaphors operate within the "cognitive comfort zone" of similarity, and analogically, they are best seen as a means of elaborating and explicating existing knowledge, and made the case for greater analytical attention to be paid to the so-called lesser tropes of anomaly, paradox, and irony, which are based on dissimilarity.