dc.contributor.author |
Monin, Nanette |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2007-03-14T23:30:05Z |
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dc.date.available |
2007-03-14T23:30:05Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2001 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Thesis (PhD--Management and Employment Relations)--University of Auckland, 2001. |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/383 |
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dc.description |
Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or may be available through Interlibrary Loan. |
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dc.description.abstract |
The texts of management theory are extensively cited and paraphrased in academic
research and teaching, and in business practice. They have only occasionally been
subjected to critical interpretation. My inquiry signals this space in management
research and then enters into it.
I ask how critical reading can effectively explore text-making in management theory,
and whether text analysis might discover previously unrecognised meaning in
management theory.
Having established that critical management scholarship has not accessed the literary
theory that would support explorations of text-making in management, I transport
relevant theory across the disciplinary divide. Drawing on a wide range of literary
theories, I develop an approach to critical reading, a method of text analysis, that I
have called ‘scriptive reading’.
Scriptive reading is a form of rhetorical analysis that acknowledges the role of
dominant (standard) readings in textual interpretation; moves on to a critical reading
that explores aspects of performance (author-reader relationships), perspective
(worldviews) and persuasion (persuasive rhetorical strategies) in the text; and, in a
final reflexive reading, considers the potential impacts of a particular reading
experience on reading outcomes. In keeping with reader-response theory the shift is
from the writer to the reader of the text.
For analysis I select six influential management theory texts – authored by Frederick
Taylor, Mary Follett, Peter Drucker, Henry Mintzberg, Rosabeth Moss Kanter and
Charles Handy. Reading scriptively, I identify ten variously shared performance
characteristics in these texts; isolate ten precepts that are common to the perspective
generally shared by them, and demonstrate that all six texts employ similarly persuasive rhetorical strategies. My findings focus on the narratives of management
theory exposed in the six readings.
I discover that five of the six texts have built a narrative around a utopian root
metaphor. The sixth text, authored by Mary Follett, does not construct a utopian
worldview, but it does share common performance attributes and persuasive
strategies. Although widely acknowledged to be theoretically profound and relevant,
Follett’s text has not historically enjoyed the status of the other five.
I conclude that reader identification with the subtexts of management theory may
have more influence on scholarly recognition of them than do the performance
attributes and the persuasive rhetorical strategies of the texts.
The significance of my conclusions suggests that scriptive reading provides readers of
management theory with a useful method of text analysis. |
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dc.format |
Scanned from print thesis |
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dc.language.iso |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
PhD Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.hasversion |
Monin, N (2004). Management Theory: A Critical and Reflexive Reading. London & New York: Routledge. |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA986954 |
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dc.rights |
Whole document restricted. Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Management Rhetoric as Performance, Perspective and Persuasion: A Scriptive Reading of Management Theory Texts |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Management and Employment Relations |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Doctoral |
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thesis.degree.name |
PhD |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The author |
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pubs.local.anzsrc |
1503 - Business and Management |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/ClosedAccess |
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pubs.org-id |
Faculty of Business |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112856941 |
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