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language and organizations  

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  • Among organizational scholars, it is increasingly recognized that language is more than merely a means of communicating information. Instead, language is understood as being fundamentally implicated in the social construction of organizations and in all of the related issues of power, knowledge, and meaning that lie at the core of organization studies. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Language and Organizations]

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