Environmental discourses in organizations: the case of a Brazilian mobile telecommunications company



Título del documento: Environmental discourses in organizations: the case of a Brazilian mobile telecommunications company
Revista: BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000331061
ISSN: 1807-7692
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Sep-Dic
Volumen: 4
Número: 3
Paginación: 1-15
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés 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
Disciplinas: Administración y contaduría,
Biología
Palabras clave: Dirección y control,
Ecología,
Empresas,
Discursos ambientales,
Irradiación electromagnética,
Contaminación visual,
Telecomunicación móvil,
Medio ambiente,
Brasil
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