The role of mass media in the consumption of management knowledge

Álvarez, José Luis; Mazza, Carmelo; Pedersen, Jesper Strandgaard

doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2005.02.013

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“…The data of our study consists of media articles that were collected from Helsingin Sanomat, the leading Finnish daily newspaper and an opinion leader in the Finnish media. In our view media provides an increasingly important and underutilized context for studying discursive legitimation of controversial corporate undertakings (see also Alvarez, Mazza, & Pedersen, 2005;Vaara et al, 2006). However, there are also other reasons for our choice of data.…”

Section: Data and Analytic Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Discursive (de)legitimation of a contested Finnish greenfield investment project in Latin America

Joutsenvirta¹,

Vaara

2009

Scandinavian Journal of Management

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Despite the central role of legitimacy in corporate social responsibility debate, little is known of subtle meaning-making processes through which social actors attempt to establish or deestablish legitimacy for socially contested corporate undertakings, and through which they, at the same time, struggle to define the proper social role and responsibility of corporations. We investigated these processes in the context of the intense socio-political conflict around the Finnish forest industry company Metsa¨-Botnia's world-scale pulp mill in Uruguay. A critical discursive analysis of Finnish media texts highlights three types of struggle that characterized the media coverage: legalistic argumentation, truth fights, and political battles. Interestingly, this case illustrates how the corporate representatives -with the help of the national media -tend to frame the issue in legalistic terms, emphasize their expert knowledge in technical and environmental evaluations, and distance themselves from political disputes. We argue that similar tendencies are likely to characterize corporate social responsibility debates more generally..

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Section: Data and Analytic Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Discursive (de)legitimation of a contested Finnish greenfield investment project in Latin America

Joutsenvirta¹,

Vaara

2009

Scandinavian Journal of Management

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“…In line with prior conceptual work (Deephouse and Heugens 2009), this framework suggests that discourses produced by infomediaries like trade journals or professional groups play a key role in processes of practice diffusion as they both reflect and shape the understanding of the worth of organizational practices among potential adopters (Alvarez et al 2005). From a diffusion theoretical view, it is thereby argued that changes in the way infomediaries construct rationales for practice adoption and connect discussions on codes of conduct to other surrounding discourses should represent an important explanatory factor for temporal heterogeneity in patterns of their material diffusion (Strang and Soule 1998).…”

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confidence: 64%

“…Second, infomediaries have been characterized as being more than transmitters or brokers of information (Deephouse and Heugens 2009). Rather, they have been described as political actors ''doing the cognitive 'groundwork''' on which actors and organizations within an industry-consciously or unconsciously-frequently base their decisions (ibid., p. 546) (Alvarez et al 2005).…”

Section: Infomediaries and Materials Practice Diffusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dressing up for Diffusion: Codes of Conduct in the German Textile and Apparel Industry, 1997–2010

Scheiber

2013

J Bus Ethics

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I study the diffusion of codes of conduct in the German textile and apparel industry between 1997 and 2010. Using a longitudinal case study design, I aim to understand how the diffusion of this practice was affected by the way important ''infomediaries''-a trade journal and a professional association-shaped its understanding within the industry. My results show that time-consuming processes of meaning reconstruction by these infomediaries temporarily hampered but finally facilitated the broader material diffusion of codes of conduct within the industry. These findings detail existing conceptualizations of code diffusion as they demonstrate how infomediaries-through creation, use, and reconstruction of explanatory accounts as well as frames of reference-participate in defining the relevance and meaning of CSR practices. I move beyond prior empirical work as I explicitly assess not only processes of meaning construction evolving around a CSR practice but also how these processes over time coincide with quantitative patterns of its material diffusion. Implications of my findings for existing research on the diffusion of codes of conduct specifically and CSR practices in general as well as for conceptualizations of diffusion from institutional theory are discussed.

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“…Ulike typer naeringslivsmedia er viktige i spredningen av nye ledelseskonsepter (Alvarez, Mazza, & Pedersen, 2005;Sahlin-Andersson & Engwall, 2002). Managementlitteratur rettet mot ledere er svaert viktig når det gjelder å popularisere nye ideer og praksiser (Furusten, 1999;Røvik, 2002).…”

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HR-analyse som ledelseskonsept og ledelsesmote

Madsen¹,

Slåtten²

2018

SiS

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Artikkelen drøfter HR-analyse som ledelseskonsept og ledelsesmote. HR analyse handler om å samle inn og analysere HR-data for å kunne fatte bedre beslutninger og har gjennom de siste årene vokst fram til å bli et svært populært konsept blant praktikere og konsulenter innen HR-feltet. Til tross for konseptets popularitet og oppmerksomhet er det blitt viet lite oppmerksomhet fra forskere. Ved å bruke teorier om ledelseskonsepter og ledelsesmoter er formålet med denne artikkelen å bedre kunne forstå utbredelsen av HR-analyse og de sterke kreftene som står bak spredningen av konseptet. Vi presenterer også noen funn fra virksomheters anvendelse av konseptet.

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The role of mass media in the consumption of management knowledge

Cited by 29 publications

References 8 publications

Discursive (de)legitimation of a contested Finnish greenfield investment project in Latin America

Discursive (de)legitimation of a contested Finnish greenfield investment project in Latin America

Dressing up for Diffusion: Codes of Conduct in the German Textile and Apparel Industry, 1997–2010

HR-analyse som ledelseskonsept og ledelsesmote

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