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The politics of discourse: marketization of the New Zealand science and innovation system

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posted on 2024-07-11, 18:13 authored by Shirley Leitch, Sally Davenport
The politics of change are both played out within the arena of discourse and dedicated to transforming that arena. In this article, we bring together critical discourse theory and political process theory in order to highlight the ways in which a process of discourse transformation can be deployed by organizations to effect political and economic change. In the process we examine the discursive interplay between the actors as well as the discursive constraints on action. The context for our analysis was the attempt by a national science funding body to transform the New Zealand discourse of science and innovation in order to significantly change the behaviour of multiple stakeholder organizations. This discourse transformation had internal and external dimensions and required a radical restructuring of the organization to create a structure capable of driving and supporting the desired changes.

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0018-7267

Journal title

Human Relations

Volume

58

Issue

7

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21 pp

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Sage

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Copyright © 2005 The Tavistock Institute. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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eng

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