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EJKM
Volume 7 Issue 3


Power, Discursive Practices and the Construction of the "Real"
Alketa Peci1, Marcelo M. F. Vieira1 and Stewart Clegg2
1Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Starting with a critique of the epistemological and ontological bases of neo-institutionalism, in this article we defend the potential for the application of post-structuralist perspectives to the institutional approach. We contend that this theoretical approach, which incorporates an element, traditionally overlooked in institutional analyses, namely power, has the advantage of contributing to an enhanced comprehension of the dynamics of institutionalization. In conclusion, we believe that the area of organizational studies would benefit by a more all-encompassing vision of the processes of institutionalization, which would include power at its core, instead of considering institutions as non-changing variables. Undoubtedly, if we take empirical research into consideration, what we need is, from a historical perspective, understand the way by which the main discourses or narratives constitute, transform and are transformed by our objects of investigation, among which organizations certainly occupy a central place.

Keywords: power, discursive practices, institutionalization, post-structuralism, fields, construction of the "real"

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