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TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategy as text and discursive practice
T2 - a genre-based approach to strategizing in city administration
AU - Palli, Pekka
AU - Vaara, E.
AU - Sorsa, Virpi
PY - 2009/8
Y1 - 2009/8
N2 - Despite the acknowledged importance of strategic planning in business and other organizations, there are few studies focusing on strategy texts and the related processes of their production and consumption. In this article, we attempt to partially fill this research gap by examining the institutionalized aspects of strategy discourse: what strategy is as genre. Combining textual analysis and analysis of conversation, the article focuses on the official strategy of the City of Lahti in Finland. Our analysis shows how specific communicative purposes and lexico-grammatical features characterize the genre of strategy and how the actual negotiations over strategy text involve particular kinds of intersubjectivity and intertextuality.
AB - Despite the acknowledged importance of strategic planning in business and other organizations, there are few studies focusing on strategy texts and the related processes of their production and consumption. In this article, we attempt to partially fill this research gap by examining the institutionalized aspects of strategy discourse: what strategy is as genre. Combining textual analysis and analysis of conversation, the article focuses on the official strategy of the City of Lahti in Finland. Our analysis shows how specific communicative purposes and lexico-grammatical features characterize the genre of strategy and how the actual negotiations over strategy text involve particular kinds of intersubjectivity and intertextuality.
KW - conversation
KW - critical discourse analysis
KW - genre
KW - intersubjectivity
KW - intertextuality
KW - organization
U2 - 10.1177/1750481309337206
DO - 10.1177/1750481309337206
M3 - Journal article
VL - 3
SP - 303
EP - 318
JO - Discourse and Communication
JF - Discourse and Communication
SN - 1750-4813
IS - 3
ER -