Using verbal irony to move on with controversial issues

Irony is an effective means of dealing with controversy in organizations, but there is a paucity of knowledge of the various ways in which irony helps managers to do so without necessarily ‘solving’ those issues. By drawing on discursive incongruity theory, we examine the use of irony when managers...

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Main Authors: Kwon, W, Clark, I, Vaara, E, Mackay, R, Wodak, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: INFORMS 2020