Deetz’s corporate colonization thesis examines how managerial rationalities and organizational discourse can exclude affected interests from meaningful decisions. It directs attention to whose interpretations count and whether participation can change outcomes, without treating every managerial decision as domination or supplying a universal rule for democratic governance.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories
Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.