Alison Gilchrist
Biographic Data
| ID | 357774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Gilchrist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilchrist |
| SIGNATURE | GILCHRIST A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1646-6871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Managing precarity at the intersection of individual and collective life: A Membership Categorisation Analysis of Tensions and Conflict in Identities within an Online Biosocial Community
This paper explores how individuals living within high-stakes precarious categories navigate their identity within online spaces. Using Membership Categorisation Analysis, we investigate how categorical inferences are indexed by those individuals within online biosocial communities in everyday speech, as part of their construction of identities. More specifically, we analyse online interactions of women who have been identified as carrying a BRCA…
The Well-Connected Community: A Networking Approach to Community Development
There is growing recognition in practice and policy of how networking contributes to the vitality and cohesion of community life and civil society. The Well-Connected Community provides theoretical insights and practical guidance for people working with and for communities. This updated edition takes account of the changing political and economic context, including rising social inequalities and community tensions. It considers new approaches to …
Sensemaking, Sense-Censoring and Strategic Inaction: The Discursive Enactment of Power and Politics in a Multinational Corporation
In this paper we contribute to knowledge of power and politics in international business by developing the understanding of the role of discourse and sensemaking in the subsidiary-headquarters relationship. Based on an ethnographic action research study in a British subsidiary of an American multinational corporation, we conduct an ethnomethodologically informed discourse analysis of the accounts, stories and metaphors through which power and pol…
Category predication work, discursive leadership and strategic sensemaking
Categorization is known to play an important role in organizations because categories ‘frame’ situations in particular ways, informing managerial sensemaking and enabling managerial intervention. In this article, we advance existing work by examining the role of categorization practices in discursive leadership during periods of strategic change. Drawing on data from an ethnographic action research study of a strategic change initiative in a mult…
Politics and strategy practice: An ethnomethodologically-informed discourse analysis perspective
In this article we aim to contribute to the ‘strategy-as-practice’ (SAP) field by studying organizational politics from an ethnomethodological perspective. We argue that it is important to study not only the ‘politics of sensemaking’, but also the ‘sensemaking of politics’. Existing research has examined how power and politics plays a role in the sensemaking processes involved in strategic action, yet we have little understanding to date about ho…
The well-connected community (Second edition): A networking approach to community development
Partnership and Participation: Power in Process
There has been an increasing emphasis on community engagement in the design and delivery of Government policies aimed at improving the conditions in Britain's most disadvantaged areas. Expecting communities to participate in decision-making and to work in partnership with statutory and private agencies has raised important issues regarding accountability: to whom and for what. This article considers these questions from the community perspective,…
Category predication work, discursive leadership and strategic sensemaking
Categorization is known to play an important role in organizations because categories ‘frame’ situations in particular ways, informing managerial sensemaking and enabling managerial intervention. In this article, we advance existing work by examining the role of categorization practices in discursive leadership during periods of strategic change. Drawing on data from an ethnographic action research study of a strategic change initiative in a mult…
Sensemaking, Sense-Censoring and Strategic Inaction: The Discursive Enactment of Power and Politics in a Multinational Corporation
In this paper we contribute to knowledge of power and politics in international business by developing the understanding of the role of discourse and sensemaking in the subsidiary-headquarters relationship. Based on an ethnographic action research study in a British subsidiary of an American multinational corporation, we conduct an ethnomethodologically informed discourse analysis of the accounts, stories and metaphors through which power and pol…
Politics and strategy practice: An ethnomethodologically-informed discourse analysis perspective
In this article we aim to contribute to the ‘strategy-as-practice’ (SAP) field by studying organizational politics from an ethnomethodological perspective. We argue that it is important to study not only the ‘politics of sensemaking’, but also the ‘sensemaking of politics’. Existing research has examined how power and politics plays a role in the sensemaking processes involved in strategic action, yet we have little understanding to date about ho…
Partnership and Participation: Power in Process
There has been an increasing emphasis on community engagement in the design and delivery of Government policies aimed at improving the conditions in Britain's most disadvantaged areas. Expecting communities to participate in decision-making and to work in partnership with statutory and private agencies has raised important issues regarding accountability: to whom and for what. This article considers these questions from the community perspective,…
Partnership and Participation: Power in Process
There has been an increasing emphasis on community engagement in the design and delivery of Government policies aimed at improving the conditions in Britain's most disadvantaged areas. Expecting communities to participate in decision-making and to work in partnership with statutory and private agencies has raised important issues regarding accountability: to whom and for what. This article considers these questions from the community perspective,…
The well-connected community (Second edition): A networking approach to community development
Politics and strategy practice: An ethnomethodologically-informed discourse analysis perspective
In this article we aim to contribute to the ‘strategy-as-practice’ (SAP) field by studying organizational politics from an ethnomethodological perspective. We argue that it is important to study not only the ‘politics of sensemaking’, but also the ‘sensemaking of politics’. Existing research has examined how power and politics plays a role in the sensemaking processes involved in strategic action, yet we have little understanding to date about ho…
Category predication work, discursive leadership and strategic sensemaking
Categorization is known to play an important role in organizations because categories ‘frame’ situations in particular ways, informing managerial sensemaking and enabling managerial intervention. In this article, we advance existing work by examining the role of categorization practices in discursive leadership during periods of strategic change. Drawing on data from an ethnographic action research study of a strategic change initiative in a mult…
Sensemaking, Sense-Censoring and Strategic Inaction: The Discursive Enactment of Power and Politics in a Multinational Corporation
In this paper we contribute to knowledge of power and politics in international business by developing the understanding of the role of discourse and sensemaking in the subsidiary-headquarters relationship. Based on an ethnographic action research study in a British subsidiary of an American multinational corporation, we conduct an ethnomethodologically informed discourse analysis of the accounts, stories and metaphors through which power and pol…
The Well-Connected Community: A Networking Approach to Community Development
There is growing recognition in practice and policy of how networking contributes to the vitality and cohesion of community life and civil society. The Well-Connected Community provides theoretical insights and practical guidance for people working with and for communities. This updated edition takes account of the changing political and economic context, including rising social inequalities and community tensions. It considers new approaches to …
Managing precarity at the intersection of individual and collective life: A Membership Categorisation Analysis of Tensions and Conflict in Identities within an Online Biosocial Community
This paper explores how individuals living within high-stakes precarious categories navigate their identity within online spaces. Using Membership Categorisation Analysis, we investigate how categorical inferences are indexed by those individuals within online biosocial communities in everyday speech, as part of their construction of identities. More specifically, we analyse online interactions of women who have been identified as carrying a BRCA…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Innovation and Knowledge Management (3 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sensemaking (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)