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Intervening in the inevitable: Contesting globalization in a public sector organization
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Spicer, André and Fleming, Peter (2007) Intervening in the inevitable: Contesting globalization in a public sector organization. Organization, 14 (4). pp. 517-541. doi:10.1177/1350508407078051 ISSN 1350-5084.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508407078051
Abstract
Drawing on data from a study of an Australian public broadcaster (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation), this paper demonstrates how the marketization of public sector organizations involves a 'discourse of globalization' that legitimates marketization initiatives by making them appear inevitable. This discursive dimension also becomes a site of contestation. We examine three oppositional groups that challenge the apparent inevitability of globalization through a range of discursive tactics. They are surfacing implicitly shared values, appropriating dominant themes of globalization, and recovering traditional notions of public service. The paper explores the socio-political effects of such discursive tactics as they relate to understandings of globalization 'from below'.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Organization | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1350-5084 | ||||
Official Date: | July 2007 | ||||
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Volume: | 14 | ||||
Number: | 4 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 25 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 517-541 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1350508407078051 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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