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| Author: | Chreim, S. |
| Title: | Managerial frames and institutional discourses of change: Employee appropriation and resistance |
| Journal: | Organization Studies
2006 : VOL. 27:9 , p. 1261-1287 |
| Index terms: | management employees organizational change banks Canada |
| Freeterms: | frame alignment |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | In this paper, it is proposed that the notions of frame (hereafter as: fr./frs.) and fr. appropriation are useful tools for studying of control in organizations, and also for the analysis of the connection btw. micro-level discursive activities etc. An empirical study of bank employees' (as: empls.) accounts of their responses (as: rsps.) to two different changes introduced by management indicates that empls. frame their rsps. partly according to their individual capabilities and experiences, and that empls. frs. show an alignment (as: algn.) with managerial (as: mgr-al) frs. and institutional discourses that are unified and reified, and that empls. frs. exhibit both algn. and mis-algn. with mgr-al frs. open to contestation. It is also indicated that institutional discourses can both enable and constrain empls. resistance to mgr-al frs. |
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