Nick Wailes

TL;DR: There is a growing body of literature on ethical or socially responsible investment across a range of disciplines as discussed by the authors, highlighting the key themes in the field and identifying some of the major theoretical and practical challenges facing both scholars and practitioners.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the contribution that discourse analysis can make to understanding organizational change and identify five key contributions of discourse analytic approaches: reveal the important role of discourse in the social construction of organizational change; demonstrate how the meaning attached to organizational change initiatives comes about as a result of a discursive process of negotiation among key actors; show that the discourses of change should be regarded as intertextual; provide a valuable multi-disciplinary perspective on change; and exhibit a capacity, to generate fresh insights into a wide variety of organizational changes related issues.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a number of connections between recent thinking about change in the organization studies (OS) literature and debates about information, and explore the connections between these two issues.

TL;DR: The role that discourse plays in the social construction of enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) has been explored in this article, where the authors demonstrate the role of discourse in the development of ERPs.

TL;DR: A review of the discursive formation of organizational change and the possible directions that change management initiatives may take in the future can be found in this article, which highlights a shift of emphases in organizational change due to environmental imperatives.