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Organization | 2010

Heroes, villains and ‘honourable merchants’: Narrative change in the German media discourse on corporate governance

Ronald Hartz; Thomas Steger

Drawing on data from recent media discourse about corporate governance in Germany, this article primarily seeks to explore the changing nature of narratives in the mass media about both organizations and their managers. Based on Greimas’ narrative approach and his adaptation of Propp’s morphology of the folktale, the article reconstructs two different narratives of corporate governance and the transformation process between them. To improve our understanding of narrative change, we extend the Greimasian approach in two respects. First, we highlight the two-way relationship between narrative change and the wider economic context. Second, we point to structural conditions of the narrative(s) in relation to narrative change and identify typical semantic figures as indicators of change.


Culture and Organization | 2012

Reclaiming the truth of the market in times of crisis: Course, transformation and strategies of a liberal discourse in Germany

Ronald Hartz

This paper presents an analysis of discursive transformations and strategies aimed at overcoming the crisis of neo-liberal discourse and order during the global financial crisis in the liberal key medium Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Using the analytical background of governmentality studies, the concept of ‘normalism’ and critical discourse analysis, I reconstruct and discuss four distinguishable phases of the discourse. Against the backdrop of these phases, I highlight four evolving discursive strategies which serve to justify the neo-liberal order: (1) changes in the inclusion, exclusion and representation of actors, (2) flexible normalization and de-normalization, (3) naturalization of the economic order and (4) a transformation of speech functions. In general, this exploration of the discursive transformation and strategies aims to open up new vistas for a discussion of the discursive handling of economic and, respectively, societal crises.


Zeitschrift Fur Personalforschung | 2008

The power of participation? Power relations and processes in employee-owned companies

Thomas Steger; Ronald Hartz

Introducing employee participation in a company can be expected to change the power relations and the power processes within the organization. This is particularly true when the majority ownership of a company moves into the hand of its employees. Drawing on three case studies of East German companies this paper describes how the introduction of employee ownership interrelates with power relations and processes in the company. Moreover, some overarching patterns were derived from the analysis finally resulting in seven propositions about how employee ownership and power are linked to each other.


Archive | 2017

Diskursanalyse in der Organisationsforschung

Ronald Hartz; Gabriele Fassauer

Der Beitrag bietet einen grundlegenden Uberblick uber diskursanalytische Orientierungen und Perspektiven in der Organisationsforschung. Entlang der Achsen Sprachgebrauch – Ordnung des Diskurses und Deskription – Kritik werden zunachst grundlegende gegenstandsbezogene und normative Orientierungen der Diskursforschung benannt. Anschliesend erfolgt eine Darstellung von Rhetorik, Gesprachsanalyse, Narrationsanalyse und kritischer Diskursanalyse als vier weitverbreiteten Perspektiven diskursanalytischer Forschung. Ein Uberblick uber methodische Schritte und methodische Besonderheiten diskursanalytischer Forschung beschliest den Beitrag.


Archive | 2017

Dispositiv und Ökonomie

Rainer Diaz-Bone; Ronald Hartz

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Organizacija | 2016

The Employee as the Unknown Actor? A Discourse Analysis of the Employee Share Ownership Debate with Special Emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe

Olaf Kranz; Thomas Steger; Ronald Hartz

Abstract Background and purpose: Although employee share ownership (ESO) deserves of a long tradition, we still know little about employees’ perspectives about ESO. The lack of knowledge about the employees’ attitudes towards ESO is discursively filled in the ESO debate. This paper challenges that deficit by carrying out a semantic analysis of the literature with the aim to identify the various actor constructions used implicitly in the ESO discourse. Design/Methodology/Approach: We conduct a semantic analysis of the ESO discourse. To unfold the order of this discourse we draw on the distinction between surface and underlying structure of communication in the sense of Michel Foucault. We interpret some semantic lead differences, a term coined by Niklas Luhmann, to constitute the underlying structure of communication. Results: We can identify six different streams on the ESO discourse’s surface level each defined by the ends pursued. The discourse’s underlying structure is made up of the distinctions production-consumption, capital-labour, and ownership-control that also determine the actor models implicitly in use. Conclusion: We can identify five different actor models implicit in the ESO discourse. While the CEE discourse differs on the surface level in as far as it is more concerned with questions of political legitimation of the privatisation process than with questions of economic efficiency, thus introducing political distinctions in the discourse rather missing in the west, it shares the underlying semantic lead differences with the Western discourse as well as the actor models anchored in those differences.


Archive | 2017

Über die Kunst, sich anders zu organisieren

Ronald Hartz

Der Beitrag diskutiert zunachst die Arbeiten Michel Foucaults im Kontext einer kritischen Organisationsforschung, welche den Gegenstandsbereich „Organisation“ einer historischen, machtkritischen und prozessorientierten Perspektive unterwirft, und geht hierbei insbesondere auf die Perspektive der Dispositivanalyse ein. Die dispositivanalytische Perspektive erfahrt mit dem Konzept des „Gegen-Dispositivs“ eine spezifische Zuspitzung, insofern dieses die Moglichkeiten alternativer Formen des Organisierens als Ausdruck eines „Gegen-Verhaltens“ in den analytischen Fokus ruckt. Auf Basis einer empirischen Fallstudie zu einer Genossenschaftsbank werden Konturen eines „Gegen-Dispositivs“ sichtbar, welches entlang der Analyserichtungen Kontextualisierung, Wissen-Macht-Nexus und strategische Ausrichtung diskutiert wird.


Archive | 2014

Genossenschaften als Modell partizipativen Organisierens

Irma Rybnikova; Ronald Hartz

Eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Genossenschaftswesen im Kontext eines Bandes zu den „Perspektiven der Wirtschaftswissenschaften“ mag zunachst verwundern, denn auf den ersten Blick scheint die Beschaftigung mit Genossenschaften eher ins Gebiet der Wirtschaftsgeschichte zu gehoren als zur Gegenwart (und Zukunft) der Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Dem scheint auch der eher randstandige Status zu entsprechen, welchen die Beschaftigung mit Genossenschaften in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften besitzt.


Archive | 2009

Der Mitarbeiter als Kapitaleigner

Ronald Hartz; Olaf Kranz; Thomas Steger


Schmalenbach Business Review | 2016

Stories of Adoration and Agony: The Entanglement of Struggles for Recognition, Emotions and Institutional Work

Gabriele Fassauer; Ronald Hartz

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Thomas Steger

University of Regensburg

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Olaf Kranz

Chemnitz University of Technology

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Gabriele Fassauer

Dresden University of Technology

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