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| Author: | Symon, G. (et al.) |
| Title: | Positioning qualitative research as resistance to the institutionalization of the academic labour process |
| Journal: | Organization Studies
2008 : VOL. 29:10, p. 1315-1336 |
| Index terms: | qualitative research academic research management labour |
| Freeterms: | processes institutionalization |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The 'institutional work' (by Lawrence and Suddaby, 2006) of disrupting institutions is explored in the context of the contemporary academic labour process, particularly research approaches within the management discipline. A total of 45 individuals involved in conducting, funding, publishing and using qualitative management research were interviewed. Based on analysis of their arguments, it is focused specifically on the discursive positioning of quantitative research as illegitimate institutionalization of academic working practices and of qualitative research as legitimate resistance to this institutionalization. Identified is a number of rhetorical strategies which construct and justify these discursive positions including: the undermining of success criteria; the legitimizing of interests and actors etc. It is argued that examining institutional work as rhetoric adds to this study's theoretical understanding of the discursive disruption of institutions, especially as to the manipulation of contradictory meanings and the functions of agency-structure discourse etc. |
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