Samra-Fredericks2004
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Samra-Fredericks2004 |
| Author(s) | Dalvir Samra‐Fredericks |
| Title | Understanding the production of ‘strategy’ and ‘organization’ through talk amongst managerial elites |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Managerial Elites, Strategy, Talk |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Culture and Organization |
| Volume | 10 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 125–141 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/1475955042000253413 |
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Abstract
The paper draws upon ethnographic research that also placed centre-stage the recording of managerial elites’ everyday naturally occurring talk-based interactive routines over time/space. To understand these routines, a number of theoretical and analytical ‘paths’ were deployed. Conversation analysis, as one branch of ethnomethodological study, provided one crucial basis for fine-grained analyses of the ‘methods’ and reasoning procedures utilised by the managerial elites. Equally, though, in conducting analyses of human activity, elusive notions such as interests, preferences, goals, power and their biographies of prior dealings also surface. The ethnographic component can provide one means for careful considerations of history, culture, and politics. The theoretical and analytical issues when attempting to encompass both ranscript-intrinsic and transcript-extrinsic ‘data’ are then considered here against one small strip of interaction. It was one occasioned moment in a stream of interactions where the managerial elites ostensibly sought to shape strategic direction. What they do, of course, is always produce ‘organization’, which they then work with for next-time-around actions. The paper also includes a brief commentary upon the issue of linkages between what has been termed micro and macro aspects of ‘reality’.
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