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A Discursive Perspective on Legitimation Strategies in Multinational Corporations

A Recursive Perspective on Discursive Legitimation and Organizational Action in Mergers and Acquisitions

Attributional tendencies in cultural explanations of M&A performance

Becoming an international man

Beyond merger syndrome and cultural differences: New avenues for research on the “human side” of global mergers and acquisitions (M&As)

Causation, counterfactuals, and competitive advantage

Cultural differences, convergence, and crossvergence as explanations of knowledge transfer in international acquisitions

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

Explaining Employees’ Reactions towards a Cross-Border Merger: The Role of English Language Fluency

Explanations of Success and Failure in Management Learning: What Can We Learn From Nokia’s Rise and Fall?

Giving Sense to and Making Sense of Justice in Postmerger Integration

article by Philippe Monin et al published February 2013 in Academy of Management Journal

How Can Pluralistic Organizations Proceed with Strategic Change? A Processual Account of Rhetorical Contestation, Convergence, and Partial Agreement in a Nordic City Organization

scientific article published in 2020

How to connect strategy research with broader issues that matter?

Introduction to the Special Issue. 'Connectivity' in Merging Organizations: Beyond Traditional Cultural Perspectives

Knowledge transfer in multinational corporations: Productive and counterproductive effects of language-sensitive recruitment

Language policies and practices in wholly owned foreign subsidiaries: A recontextualization perspective

Legitimacy Struggles and Political Corporate Social Responsibility in International Settings: A Comparative Discursive Analysis of a Contested Investment in Latin America

scholarly article by Maria Joutsenvirta & Eero Vaara published 19 March 2015 in Organization Studies

Mastery, submission, and subversion: On the performative construction of strategist identity

Narrative attributions of entrepreneurial failure

Narratives as Sources of Stability and Change in Organizations: Approaches and Directions for Future Research

On the Importance of Broader Critique: Discursive Knowledge Production in Management Education

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On the Narrative Construction of Multinational Corporations: An Antenarrative Analysis of Legitimation and Resistance in a Cross-Border Merger

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On the Problem of Participation in Strategy: A Critical Discursive Perspective

On the force potential of strategy texts: a critical discourse analysis of a strategic plan and its power effects in a city organization

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Putting Communication Front and Center in Institutional Theory and Analysis

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Reasonability and the Linguistic Division of Labor in Institutional Work

Reproduction and Change on the Global Scale: A Bourdieusian Perspective on Management Education

Selling, resistance and reconciliation: A critical discursive approach to subsidiary role evolution in MNEs

Stereotype-Based Managerial Identity Work in Multinational Corporations

Strategic ethnography 2.0: Four methods for advancing strategy process and practice research

scholarly article by Mikko Vesa & Eero Vaara published 31 October 2014 in Strategic Organization

Strategy as text and discursive practice: a genre-based approach to strategizing in city administration

Strategy-as-Practice: Taking Social Practices Seriously

Struggles Over Legitimacy in Global Organizational Restructuring: A Rhetorical Perspective on Legitimation Strategies and Dynamics in a Shutdown Case

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Struggles over legitimacy in the Eurozone crisis: Discursive legitimation strategies and their ideological underpinnings

Taking Historical Embeddedness Seriously: Three Historical Approaches to Advance Strategy Process and Practice Research

Taking the linguistic turn seriously: Strategy as A multifaceted and interdiscursive phenomenon

The Contraction of Meaning: The Combined Effect of Communication, Emotions, and Materiality on Sensemaking in the Stockwell Shooting

article by Joep P. Cornelissen et al published 15 January 2014 in Journal of Management Studies

The Impact of Organizational and National Cultural Differences on Social Conflict and Knowledge Transfer in International Acquisitions

The Intertextual Production of International Relations in Mergers and Acquisitions

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The Process of Postmerger Integration: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

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Towards crossvergence, micro-level approaches and critical perspectives: Introduction to the special issue on new perspectives on international management research

Varieties of National Metonymy in Media Accounts of International Mergers and Acquisitions