'Contraversations' Constructing Conflicts
| Autor: | James J. Keenan, Maria Aggestam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Dialogical self Stakeholder Strict constructionism Face (sociological concept) Public relations Leverage (negotiation) Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Narrative Conversation Sociology Social science business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Business & Society. 46:429-456 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4205 0007-6503 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0007650306296376 |
| Popis: | Businesses and societies face increasingly complex problems. Collaborative relationships are needed to leverage the differences among participants and to balance stakeholder concerns. The article takes a discursive, constructionist approach in exploring the relations of five factions involved in resolving a town-gown conflict. The case data are narratives collected during a pivotal community-wide meeting in which the town-gown factions participated. The findings underscore the characteristics and roles of language in constructing and organizing meanings. In particular, the focal data reveal the influence of “contraversation”—that is, dialectical and dialogical conversation particularly and publicly directed against one faction, in constructing antagonisms and thwarting collaboration. The focal findings added insight into the demographic and historical characteristics of the factions, the socially embedded understandings, and the role of conversations in developing discursive resources that create collective identities and translate them into integrating rather than disintegrating intergroup performance in facing problematic concerns. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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