Cliff Oswick
Biographic Data
| ID | 2142281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cliff Oswick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cliff |
| FAMILY NAME | Oswick |
| SIGNATURE | OSWICK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4574-2708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond “ A Responsible Research”
Organising, music and metaphor
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Discourses of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
Using bibliometric analysis of published work, we examine the discursive trends, patterns and implications of three different anti‐discrimination solutions (equality, diversity and inclusion) over a 40‐year period from 1970 to 2010. The findings reveal that the anti‐discrimination discourses are consistent with management fashions, in terms of both their trends and the rhetorical strategies used by proponents to establish the dominance of their f…
Educating consent? A conversation with Noam Chomsky on the university and business school education
In what follows, we present a conversation with Professor Noam Chomsky on the topic of whether the business school might be a site for progressive political change. The conversation covers a number of key issues related to pedagogy, corporate social responsibility and working conditions in the contemporary business school. We hope the conversion will contribute to the ongoing discussion about the role of the business school in neoliberal societie…
The Recontextualization of Commercialization
The recontextualization of commercialization
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact of the introduction of a commerical discourse within a scientific context (i.e. a research and development (R&D) setting). It explores the reconstitution of professional identities, becoming customer focused and changing time orientations. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon the concept of recontextualization as a discursive framework for analysis, extensive fieldwork was undertaken…
Discourse and Critical Management Studies
Articulating identities
One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search for `identity'. Using the five theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both a `rich' discursive resource and a point of departure, we develop a supplementary reading of the narratives which appear to inform identity research. We suggest that, while social agents in pursuit of `identity' draw on a cacophony of discursive sources, it is the varieties of `self—other' tal…
Operationalizing Iraqi freedom
Purpose – To understand practices of inscription and description used by the US Government in the production of discourse concerning the war in Iraq as part of the post 9/11 War on Terror and as part of a neo‐liberal project of governance
The ideology of markets and the practice of policy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to briefly explore some recent curious interlocking of the ideology of markets and the practice of policy. Design/methodology/approach This particular discursive combine has most visibly been apparent in the concatenated birth and death of the US Defense Department's so‐called “Policy Analysis Market” (PAM). Yet PAM is but the most notorious example of a more sustained and pervasive attempt to use the technolo…
A discursive study of institutionalisation in community organisations
Purpose The institutionalisation of neo‐liberalist discourse has significantly changed the way in which the relationship between government and community organisations is described and regulated in Australia. These changes are most clearly articulated in government policy discourse as a move away from “funding” community service organisations to “purchasing” the delivery of community services. This research aims to explore institutionalisation in…
Facing culture
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how Dutch social workers make sense of the cultural otherness produced by clients with migrant origins and relates this to the various discourses that constitute the legacy of Dutch social work. Design/methodology/approach The paper relies on a historical discourse analysis based on secondary sources and on a fieldwork study performed in a contemporary organization. Findings The analysis reveals thr…
Discourse, practice, policy and organizing
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the interplay between discourse, policy and practice in relation to aspects of organization and processes of organizing. Design/methodology/approach Provides an introduction to the six contributions contained in this special issue and discusses how they relate to the core theme. Findings Highlights the need for an approach which treats discourses, policies and practices as connected and mutually im…
Outsourcing (the) economy to India
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine critically both utopian and dystopian discourses of offshoring so that a more considered, nonetheless theoretically informed, view of the global offshore phenomenon can be formed. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon some preliminary research on offshoring ventures from the UK to India, and the extant literature, the practice of business process outsourcing (BPO) via offshoring is explored and c…
Institutional transformation through positive textual deviance
Purpose The paper aims to explore an affirmative, discursive perspective for its potential to expand the current understanding of processes of institutional transformation. Design/methodology/approach First the notion of institutional transformation is discussed and the “discursive model of institutionalization” as developed by Phillips et al. is described. Then the concept of “positive textual deviance” is introduced and defined. The discursive …
Regulation and freedom in global business education
Purpose This paper seeks to confront the orthodoxy of global business education with some insights from postcolonial theory in order to develop a new critical pedagogy adequate for a global sociology of management and accounting. Design/methodology/approach Reviewing the state of play in postcolonial theory and noting the new politicisation in that field, the paper asks what relevance this politicisation might have for an alternative to orthodox …
Introduction to Time and Discourse
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The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse
Tropes, Discourse and Organizing
Talk in organizations
In this paper the relationship between local conversations and wider perspectives in organizations is explored and critiqued initially through an examination of the concept of ‘conversational lamination’ (). It is argued at the outset that the metaphor of lamination promotes an inherently univocal account of the role and status of conversations in organizational settings. This perspective is challenged through the deployment of counter‐metaphors …
Discourse, Epistemology and Organization
Discourse, Organization and Epistemology
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Discourse, Organizations and Organizing
The Discourses of Organizing
Discourse and Organization
Articulating identities
One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search for `identity'. Using the five theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both a `rich' discursive resource and a point of departure, we develop a supplementary reading of the narratives which appear to inform identity research. We suggest that, while social agents in pursuit of `identity' draw on a cacophony of discursive sources, it is the varieties of `self—other' tal…
Discourse, Organizations and Organizing
Outsourcing (the) economy to India
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine critically both utopian and dystopian discourses of offshoring so that a more considered, nonetheless theoretically informed, view of the global offshore phenomenon can be formed. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon some preliminary research on offshoring ventures from the UK to India, and the extant literature, the practice of business process outsourcing (BPO) via offshoring is explored and c…
Introduction to Time and Discourse
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not.The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire
The Discourses of Organizing
The recontextualization of commercialization
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact of the introduction of a commerical discourse within a scientific context (i.e. a research and development (R&D) setting). It explores the reconstitution of professional identities, becoming customer focused and changing time orientations. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon the concept of recontextualization as a discursive framework for analysis, extensive fieldwork was undertaken…
Operationalizing Iraqi freedom
Purpose – To understand practices of inscription and description used by the US Government in the production of discourse concerning the war in Iraq as part of the post 9/11 War on Terror and as part of a neo‐liberal project of governance
A discursive study of institutionalisation in community organisations
Purpose The institutionalisation of neo‐liberalist discourse has significantly changed the way in which the relationship between government and community organisations is described and regulated in Australia. These changes are most clearly articulated in government policy discourse as a move away from “funding” community service organisations to “purchasing” the delivery of community services. This research aims to explore institutionalisation in…
Discourse, practice, policy and organizing
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the interplay between discourse, policy and practice in relation to aspects of organization and processes of organizing. Design/methodology/approach Provides an introduction to the six contributions contained in this special issue and discusses how they relate to the core theme. Findings Highlights the need for an approach which treats discourses, policies and practices as connected and mutually im…
Talk in organizations
In this paper the relationship between local conversations and wider perspectives in organizations is explored and critiqued initially through an examination of the concept of ‘conversational lamination’ (). It is argued at the outset that the metaphor of lamination promotes an inherently univocal account of the role and status of conversations in organizational settings. This perspective is challenged through the deployment of counter‐metaphors …
Organizational Discourses
Discourse and Organization
Discourse, Epistemology and Organization
Discourse, Organization and Epistemology
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Discourse, Organizations and Organizing
The Discourses of Organizing
The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse
Tropes, Discourse and Organizing
Talk in organizations
In this paper the relationship between local conversations and wider perspectives in organizations is explored and critiqued initially through an examination of the concept of ‘conversational lamination’ (). It is argued at the outset that the metaphor of lamination promotes an inherently univocal account of the role and status of conversations in organizational settings. This perspective is challenged through the deployment of counter‐metaphors …
Introduction to Time and Discourse
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not.The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire
Regulation and freedom in global business education
Purpose This paper seeks to confront the orthodoxy of global business education with some insights from postcolonial theory in order to develop a new critical pedagogy adequate for a global sociology of management and accounting. Design/methodology/approach Reviewing the state of play in postcolonial theory and noting the new politicisation in that field, the paper asks what relevance this politicisation might have for an alternative to orthodox …
Operationalizing Iraqi freedom
Purpose – To understand practices of inscription and description used by the US Government in the production of discourse concerning the war in Iraq as part of the post 9/11 War on Terror and as part of a neo‐liberal project of governance
The ideology of markets and the practice of policy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to briefly explore some recent curious interlocking of the ideology of markets and the practice of policy. Design/methodology/approach This particular discursive combine has most visibly been apparent in the concatenated birth and death of the US Defense Department's so‐called “Policy Analysis Market” (PAM). Yet PAM is but the most notorious example of a more sustained and pervasive attempt to use the technolo…
A discursive study of institutionalisation in community organisations
Purpose The institutionalisation of neo‐liberalist discourse has significantly changed the way in which the relationship between government and community organisations is described and regulated in Australia. These changes are most clearly articulated in government policy discourse as a move away from “funding” community service organisations to “purchasing” the delivery of community services. This research aims to explore institutionalisation in…
Facing culture
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how Dutch social workers make sense of the cultural otherness produced by clients with migrant origins and relates this to the various discourses that constitute the legacy of Dutch social work. Design/methodology/approach The paper relies on a historical discourse analysis based on secondary sources and on a fieldwork study performed in a contemporary organization. Findings The analysis reveals thr…
Discourse, practice, policy and organizing
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the interplay between discourse, policy and practice in relation to aspects of organization and processes of organizing. Design/methodology/approach Provides an introduction to the six contributions contained in this special issue and discusses how they relate to the core theme. Findings Highlights the need for an approach which treats discourses, policies and practices as connected and mutually im…
Outsourcing (the) economy to India
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine critically both utopian and dystopian discourses of offshoring so that a more considered, nonetheless theoretically informed, view of the global offshore phenomenon can be formed. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon some preliminary research on offshoring ventures from the UK to India, and the extant literature, the practice of business process outsourcing (BPO) via offshoring is explored and c…
Institutional transformation through positive textual deviance
Purpose The paper aims to explore an affirmative, discursive perspective for its potential to expand the current understanding of processes of institutional transformation. Design/methodology/approach First the notion of institutional transformation is discussed and the “discursive model of institutionalization” as developed by Phillips et al. is described. Then the concept of “positive textual deviance” is introduced and defined. The discursive …
Discourse and Critical Management Studies
Articulating identities
One symptom of individualism in liquid modernity is the search for `identity'. Using the five theoretically discrete articles in this special issue as both a `rich' discursive resource and a point of departure, we develop a supplementary reading of the narratives which appear to inform identity research. We suggest that, while social agents in pursuit of `identity' draw on a cacophony of discursive sources, it is the varieties of `self—other' tal…
The Recontextualization of Commercialization
The recontextualization of commercialization
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact of the introduction of a commerical discourse within a scientific context (i.e. a research and development (R&D) setting). It explores the reconstitution of professional identities, becoming customer focused and changing time orientations. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon the concept of recontextualization as a discursive framework for analysis, extensive fieldwork was undertaken…
Discourses of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
Using bibliometric analysis of published work, we examine the discursive trends, patterns and implications of three different anti‐discrimination solutions (equality, diversity and inclusion) over a 40‐year period from 1970 to 2010. The findings reveal that the anti‐discrimination discourses are consistent with management fashions, in terms of both their trends and the rhetorical strategies used by proponents to establish the dominance of their f…
Educating consent? A conversation with Noam Chomsky on the university and business school education
In what follows, we present a conversation with Professor Noam Chomsky on the topic of whether the business school might be a site for progressive political change. The conversation covers a number of key issues related to pedagogy, corporate social responsibility and working conditions in the contemporary business school. We hope the conversion will contribute to the ongoing discussion about the role of the business school in neoliberal societie…
Organising, music and metaphor
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Sociology (22 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (10 works) · Social science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)