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Argument premises used to validate organizational change: Mormon representations of plural marriage
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The authors examines organizational justification for change by analyzing sources of argument used by the Mormon Church to justify first the practice, then the abandonment, of plural marriage, in both cases, premises of argument that combined both transcendent and situational claims allowed the institution to respond to potentially dislocating environmental demands without changing its ideological posture or sacrificing its members' sense of organizational identification.Abstract:
Organizations are highly resistant to ideological change, yet must frequently adapt with their environments. The arguments used to justify change are, therefore, among an institutions most important means of survival. This essay examines organizational justification for change by analyzing sources of argument used by the Mormon Church to justify first the practice, then the abandonment, of plural marriage. In both cases, premises of argument that combined both transcendent and situational claims allowed the institution to respond to potentially dislocating environmental demands without changing its ideological posture or sacrificing its members’ sense of organizational identification.read more
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Studies in Mormon History, 1830-1997: AN INDEXED BIBLIOGRAPHY
TL;DR: The most complete and comprehensive bibliography of the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) is "Studies in Mormon History" as discussed by the authors, which contains more than 2,600 books, 10,400 articles, 1,800 theses and dissertations, and 150 significant typescripts and taskpapers.
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Blurring the Boundaries: Historical Developments and Future Directions in Organizational Rhetoric
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Personae and Natural Capitalism: Negotiating Politics and Constituencies in a Rhetoric of Sustainability
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“This Is What We're All About”: The (Re)Construction of an Oppressive Organizational Structure
TL;DR: The authors investigates how the management of dialectal tensions within an intercultural congregation serves to discipline its own members, thus (re)constructing a racially oppressive organizational structure, and discusses three dialectical tensions that emerged from this study, as well as the way each of these tensions is managed by diverse organizational members: individuality-community, valuation-devaluation, and inclusion-exclusion.
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The rhetoric of identification and the study of organizational communication
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that scholars of rhetoric and communication broaden their conception and application of Kenneth Burke's "rhetoric of identification" and offer the individual-organization relationship as an exemplar for understanding and examining the rhetoric of identification.
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The Rhetorical Construction of Institutional Authority in a Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Wilderness Legislation.
TL;DR: This article explored rhetorical strategies that construct institutional authority by analyzing discourse from a Senate subcommittee hearing and revealed three major strategies hearing participants used to reproduce authority relationships: position markers, pseudo-requests, and images of order.
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Institutional Plausibility Alignment as Rhetorical Exercise: A Mainline Denomination's Struggle with the Exigence of Sexism
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study analyzes the attempt of one group to reformulate the attitudes of its constituency on the subject of sexism, arguing that plausibility alignment is a rhetorical exercise.