TY - JOUR
T1 - Situating organizations in politics
T2 - A diachronic view of control' resistance dialectics
AU - Norton, Todd
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Organization scholars have long been interested in both collective action and the complexities revealed through dialectical analysis. A diachronic view provides one means of intertwining these concerns by exploring the way durable, systemic changes emerge temporally from ongoing contestation among stakeholders. The author explores this diachronic view through a decade-long multistakeholder conflict concerning the Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument in the U.S. state of Utah. The case makes evident the historic unfolding of power dynamics: A successful resistance movement becomes a regime of control in an ongoing struggle among groups. The author concludes by discussing the capacity of diachronic analysis to illuminate (a) politics among organizations, (b) transformative potential of dialectics, (c) interplay of symbolic and material spheres, and (d) mutual yet distinct roles of dialectical and paradoxical tensions.
AB - Organization scholars have long been interested in both collective action and the complexities revealed through dialectical analysis. A diachronic view provides one means of intertwining these concerns by exploring the way durable, systemic changes emerge temporally from ongoing contestation among stakeholders. The author explores this diachronic view through a decade-long multistakeholder conflict concerning the Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument in the U.S. state of Utah. The case makes evident the historic unfolding of power dynamics: A successful resistance movement becomes a regime of control in an ongoing struggle among groups. The author concludes by discussing the capacity of diachronic analysis to illuminate (a) politics among organizations, (b) transformative potential of dialectics, (c) interplay of symbolic and material spheres, and (d) mutual yet distinct roles of dialectical and paradoxical tensions.
KW - Control
KW - Dialectical analysis
KW - Politics
KW - Resistance
KW - Social movement organizations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=65249187286&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0893318908331099
DO - 10.1177/0893318908331099
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:65249187286
SN - 0893-3189
VL - 22
SP - 525
EP - 554
JO - Management Communication Quarterly
JF - Management Communication Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -