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Micro-level discursive strategies for constructing shared views around strategic issues in team meetings

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>03/2014
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of Management Studies
Issue number2
Volume51
Number of pages26
Pages (from-to)265-290
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date25/04/13
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Management scholars have explored how certain actors in meetings – especially leaders – shape social processes of interaction and use different linguistic devices, as methods, to affect how sense is made of strategic issues. Less attention has been paid to interactions between members of the team as a whole and the repertoire of discursive strategies, or goal-directed behaviours, that they deploy to create shared views around issues. We analyse rare empirical episodes of team discussions of strategic issues in board meetings to inductively conceptualize how this is achieved. To do this we use the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to critical discourse analysis (CDA). We reveal five discursive strategies teams use to develop shared views around strategic issues (Re/defining, Equalizing, Simplifying, Legitimating, and Reconciling) and demonstrate how they are skilfully operationalized through a range of linguistic devices or means.

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This is a post-print of an article published in Journal of Management Studies, 51 (2), 2014. (c) Wiley.