Environmental Discourses in Organizations: the Case of a Brazilian Mobile Telecommunications Company
This paper examines the discourse configurations on the environmental theme in business organizations and its relevance to the understanding of the inclusion of ecological discourses in the discourses of organizational members. A case study into a Brazilian telecommunications company offers empirica...
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Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD)
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| author | Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri Alfredo Rodrigues Leite da Silva |
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| description | This paper examines the discourse configurations on the environmental theme in business organizations and its relevance to the understanding of the inclusion of ecological discourses in the discourses of organizational members. A case study into a Brazilian telecommunications company offers empirical evidence. It begins with the understanding that organizations adopt several strategies in an attempt to disseminate a certain environmental discourse. As these efforts share space with other pressures, a fragmented discourse emerges. In this paper, the pressures of the environmental theme on organizations are discussed in order to understand this process. The second part of the argument focuses on the context of the case study – Brazilian organizations – and, afterwards, the third part deals with ecological discourses in their insertions in organizational interests. The data of the case study were collected through documental research and 40 semi-structured interviews. The analysis was applied based on Discourse Analysis. In conclusion, an ambiguous discourse configuration was shown that offer elements for the understanding that philanthropy, legal obligation and organizational competitiveness need to be used together to offer legitimacy to the theme of environmental responsibility in business organizations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-44877bf0149b4bc9b51432231fee16412023-01-03T04:38:46ZengAssociação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD)BAR: Brazilian Administration Review1807-76922007-09-0143115Environmental Discourses in Organizations: the Case of a Brazilian Mobile Telecommunications CompanyAlexandre de Pádua CarrieriAlfredo Rodrigues Leite da SilvaThis paper examines the discourse configurations on the environmental theme in business organizations and its relevance to the understanding of the inclusion of ecological discourses in the discourses of organizational members. A case study into a Brazilian telecommunications company offers empirical evidence. It begins with the understanding that organizations adopt several strategies in an attempt to disseminate a certain environmental discourse. As these efforts share space with other pressures, a fragmented discourse emerges. In this paper, the pressures of the environmental theme on organizations are discussed in order to understand this process. The second part of the argument focuses on the context of the case study – Brazilian organizations – and, afterwards, the third part deals with ecological discourses in their insertions in organizational interests. The data of the case study were collected through documental research and 40 semi-structured interviews. The analysis was applied based on Discourse Analysis. In conclusion, an ambiguous discourse configuration was shown that offer elements for the understanding that philanthropy, legal obligation and organizational competitiveness need to be used together to offer legitimacy to the theme of environmental responsibility in business organizations.http://www.anpad.org.br/periodicos/arq_pdf/a_575.pdfenvironmental discourseselectromagnetic irradiationvisual pollutionBrazilmobile telecommunications business. |
| spellingShingle | Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri Alfredo Rodrigues Leite da Silva Environmental Discourses in Organizations: the Case of a Brazilian Mobile Telecommunications Company BAR: Brazilian Administration Review environmental discourses electromagnetic irradiation visual pollution Brazil mobile telecommunications business. |
| title | Environmental Discourses in Organizations: the Case of a Brazilian Mobile Telecommunications Company |
| title_full | Environmental Discourses in Organizations: the Case of a Brazilian Mobile Telecommunications Company |
| title_fullStr | Environmental Discourses in Organizations: the Case of a Brazilian Mobile Telecommunications Company |
| title_full_unstemmed | Environmental Discourses in Organizations: the Case of a Brazilian Mobile Telecommunications Company |
| title_short | Environmental Discourses in Organizations: the Case of a Brazilian Mobile Telecommunications Company |
| title_sort | environmental discourses in organizations the case of a brazilian mobile telecommunications company |
| topic | environmental discourses electromagnetic irradiation visual pollution Brazil mobile telecommunications business. |
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