Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Abstract

Drawing on discursive approaches of stylistic linguistics and linguistic analysis, we explore ways in which temporality is an invoked and represented aspect in management journal titles. We analyze the titles of scholarly articles from three interdisciplinary organizational journals published in 2000: Administrative Science Quarterly, Group and Organization Management, and the Journal of Management Studies. We note manifestations of temporality in punctuation and word choice, in research interest, the use of academic terminology or keywords, and in underlying assumptions of temporality or timelessness. We conclude that journal titles may tell us about the speech community of management scholarship manifest through discipline-based constructions of temporality, but little about the individual experience of temporality in contributing to such a construction.

Keywords

discourse linguistics organization studies speech community temporal present time

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Adam, B. (1995) Timewatch: The Social Analysis of Time. Cambridge: Polity Press .

American Psychological Association (APA) (2001) Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC: APA .

Barry, D. and Elmes, M. (1997) ‘Strategy Retold: Toward a Narrative View of Strategic Discourse’ , Academy of Management Review 22(2): 429-452 .

Bluedorn, A. C. (2002) The Human Organization of Time: Temporal Realities and Experiences. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press .

Bluedorn, A. C. and Denhart, S. B. (1988) ‘Time and Organizations’ , Journal of Management 14(2): 299-320 .

Boden, D. (1994) The Business of Talk. Cambridge: Polity Press .

Boje, D. M. (1994) ‘Organizational Storytelling: The Struggles of Pre-modern, Modern and Post-modern Organizational Learning Discourses’ , Management Learning 25(3): 433-462 .

Clark, P. (1990) ‘Chronological Codes and Organizational Analysis’, in J. Hassard and E. D. Pym (eds) The Theory and Philosophy of Organizations, pp. 137-163. London: Routledge .

Cumming, S. and Ono, T. (1997) ‘Discourse and Grammar’, in T. van Dijk (ed.) Discourse as Structure and Process, pp. 112-137. London: SAGE Publications .

10.

Drew, P. and Heritage, J. (eds) (1992) Talk at Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .

11.

Fairclough, N. (1989) Language and Power. New York: Longman .

12.

Fairclough, N. (1992) Discourse and Social Change. Cambridge: Polity Press .

13.

Fairclough, N. (1999) ‘Discourse and Text: Linguistic and Intertextual Analysis Within Discourse Analysis’, in A. Jaworski and N. Coupland The Discourse Reader (eds), pp. 183-211. New York: Routledge .

14.

Ford, J. and Ford, L. (1995) ‘The Role of Conversations in Producing Intentional Change in Organizations’ , Academy of Management Review 20(3): 541-570 .

15.

Forray, J. M. and Woodilla, J. (2002) ‘Temporal Spans in Talk: Doing Consistency to Construct Fair Organization’ , Organization Studies 23(6): 899-916 .

16.

Gabriel, Y. (1991) ‘On Organisational Stories and Myths: Why It Is Easier to Slay a Dragon Than to Kill a Myth’ , International Sociology 6(4): 427-442 .

17.

Gherardi, S. and Strati, A. (1988) ‘The Temporal Dimension in Organizational Studies’ , Organization Studies 9(2): 149-164 .

18.

Grant, D. , Keenoy, T. and Oswick, C. (1998) ‘Organizational Discourse: Of Diversity, Dichotomy and Multi-disciplinarity’, in D. Grant , T. Keenoy and C. Oswick (eds) Discourse and Organization, pp. 1-14. London: SAGE Publications .

19.

Hacker, D. (2003) A Writer’s Reference. Boston: Bedford Books .

20.

Harley, B. and Hardy, C. (2004) ‘Firing Blanks? An Analysis of Discursive Struggle in HRM’ , Journal of Management Studies 41(3): 377-400 .

21.

Hassard, J. (1991) ‘Aspects of Time in Organization’ , Human Relations 44(2): 105-125 .

22.

Lave, J. and Wenger, E. (1991) Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .

23.

Morgan, G. (1980) ‘Paradigms, Metaphors and Puzzle Solving in Organization Theory’ , Administrative Science Quarterly 25: 605-622 .

24.

Ochs, E. (1979) ‘Transcription as Theory’, in E. Ochs and B. Schiefflin (eds) Developmental Pragmatics, pp. 43-72. New York: Academic Press .

25.

Phillips, N. and Hardy, C. (2002) Discourse Analysis: Investing Processes of Social Construction. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications .

26.

Silverman, D. (1993) Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analyzing Text, Talk, and Interaction. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications .

27.

Smith, M. K. (2003) Communities of Practice. The Encyclopedia of Informal Education. Available at: http://www.infed.org/biblio/communities_of_pratice.htm.

28.

van Dijk, T. A. (ed.) (1997) Discourse as Structure and Process. London: SAGE Publications .

29.

Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of Practice. Learning as a Social System. Available at: http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/lss.shtml.

30.

Whissell, C. (1999) ‘Linguistic Complexity of Abstracts and Titles in Highly Cited Journals’ , Perceptual and Motor Skills 88(1): 76-86 .

31.

Wilson, E. M. (2002) ‘Family Man or Conquerer? Contested Meanings in an Engineering Company’ , Culture and Organization 8(2): 81-101 .

32.

Woodilla, J. (1998) ‘Workplace Conversations: The Text of Organizing’, in D. Grant , T. Keenoy and C. Oswick (eds) Discourse and Organization, pp. 31-50. London: SAGE Publications .

Artefacts of Management Academe

Abstract

Keywords

Get full access to this article

References