The extension of strategic management discourse into public education administration
A critical analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20499696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Greckhamer (0000-0002-5766-556X, Louisiana State University, corresponding author), Sebnem Cilesiz (0000-0001-8779-4197, University of Louisiana at Lafayette) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 619-652 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-5084 • E-ISSN: 1461-7323 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1350508420956323 |
| OpenAlex | W3088203631 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 159 |
Strategy has become ubiquitous in contemporary societies. Accordingly, the expansion of strategy discourse beyond corporate management and its colonization of various aspects of economic and organizational life are important phenomena for critical management research. In this study, we explore how strategy discourse is ushered into and naturalized in the realm of educational administration. Taking a critical approach to discourse analysis, our study reveals the nature and functions of a set of texts representing a discourse that expands strategic management to public K-12 education produced by a key institutional entrepreneur in the United States. Our findings disentangle how this expansion of strategy discourse into public education administration is accomplished through the discourse’s different building blocks. They expose and denaturalize the discourse’s ideological position and exercise of power in its normative construction of the necessity of strategic management for public education. We conclude with a discussion of our study’s contributions to theory and research on the expansion of strategy discourses. In doing so, we cultivate a discussion of alternative discourses and highlight possible future research directions
Civil discourse · Critical discourse analysis · Critical management studies · Discourse analysis · Economics · Ideology · Management · Normative · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Strategic management · Management and Organizational Studies · Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies · Public Policy and Administration Research
Critical social theories
The electronic eye
Handbook of qualitative research
Human services as complex organizations
Institutional Entrepreneurship and Change in Fields
Strategy
Doing Critical Management Research
Doing Discourse Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Institutions and Institutional Work
Theorizing the Micro-politics of Resistance
Chapter 1
Discourse and Institutions
Strategy as performative practice
A Framework for Rethinking Educational Leadership in the Margins
The Dynamics of Collective Leadership and Strategic Change in Pluralistic Organizations.
Our Impoverished View of Educational Research
Neoliberal education? Confronting the slouching beast
Fitting Oval Pegs Into Round Holes
Institutional Entrepreneurship in Emerging Fields
Inside the Hybrid Organization
Identity Regulation as Organizational Control
Managing Legitimacy
In the age of the smart machine
Discipline and Punish
Discourse and social change
The Managerial State
Managerialism Redux?
Mastery, submission, and subversion
Scaling up and Bearing Down in Discourse Analysis
Discourse Analysis Organizational Analysis
On the force potential of strategy texts
Strategy-as-Power
Numericalizing the other
Metaphor, morality and legitimacy
Alternative Perspectives on the Role of Text and Agency in Constituting Organizations
The `Neo-Bureaucratic' State
The Sage Handbook of Organization Studies
Power and Organizations
A Dark Side of Institutional Entrepreneurship
Public Goods, Private Goods
Critical Discourse Analysis
Against the politics of desperation
Capitalizing on crisis
Tracking the neoliberal juggernaut
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Marketization of Public Discourse
The New Spirit of Capitalism
Commericalising education
Education reform and managerialism
Who (Else) Is the Teacher? Cautionary Notes on Teacher Accountability Systems
Defining Accountability in Education
Enacting governance through strategy
New Public Management and District Reform
(Mis)Understanding Strategy as a ‘Spectacular Intervention’
Leadership
At the Critical Moment
Discourse as a Strategic Resource
Discourse, Organizations and Organizing
Alternative logics
Varieties of Discourse
Qualitative Analysis on Stage
The Nature of Interpretation in Qualitative Research
Handbook of Strategy and Management
A preliminary theory of managerialism as an ideology
Constructing ‘the history of strategic management’
The Age of Strategy
Private Asset or Public Good
From Child’s Garden to Academic Press
Discourses and Strategic Visions
American Educational Research Journal, 1964-1968
Are We Creating Separate and Unequal Tracks of Teachers? The Effects of State Policy, Local Conditions, and Teacher Characteristics on New Teacher Socialization
Constructing Social Problems
Ideology and utopia
The Unstable Alliance for School Choice
Assessing No Child Left Behind and the Rise of Neoliberal Education Policies
Management as ideology
Issues of validity in openly ideological research
Agency and Institutions
Mapping Academic Resistance in the Managerial University
Identities and Insecurities
The neoliberal cascade and education
Institutional Entrepreneurship as Embedded Agency
Ideologies of time
Qualitative Data Analysis
Corporate Strategy, Organizations, and Subjectivity
Managerialism
Critical and descriptive goals in discourse analysis
Corporate Managerialism and the Shift From the Welfare to the Competition State
From 'Welfarism' to 'New Managerialism
The Marketization of Education
Rigor, Transparency, Evidence, and Representation in Discourse Analysis
Techniques to Identify Themes
Audit culture and Illiberal governance
What Is Managerialism
Beyond the Confines
Putting Problematization to the Test of Our Present
Theorizing Teacher Agency and Reform
The Concept of Strategy in Sociology
Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |