Browsing by Subject "discourse"

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From unemployment to running one's own business: the ideational embeddedness of entrepreneurship in Polish and EU public policy
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2013) Dudek, Michał
Nowadays the entrepreneurship phenomenon is of great importance. Small business is considered a critical factor of economic progress, innovation, and employment growth. Its economic significance implies both a certain policy shape and specific social practice. The process of setting up. maintaining and developing firms has become a subject of common approval and growing legitimization as well as of intensive governmental support in various forms. In public debate and public policy, the idea of deregulation, relating to actions limiting the administrative barriers for entrepreneurs, is justified based on neoclassical economic theory. However, both in the public debate and public policy, providing entrepreneurs with subsidies and other kind of support is based on the interventionism doctrine. Therefore, an ideational entrepreneurship system is created at the public authority level which seeks to explain and justify a certain shape of support policy for entrepreneurs. The paper argues that entrepreneurship could be perceived as an ideational embedded economic action. In order to illustrate the ideational embeddedness of entrepreneurship, EU and Polish public policy discourse form 2000-2010 was analysed. The objects of qualitative discourse analysis were, among others, governmental documents, strategies. and public statements.
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Meaning of Discourse Analysis in Methodology of Management Sciences
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Bujak-Lechowicz, Jolanta; Kocoń, Paweł
Discourse analysis is a research method well rooted in linguistics and in such sciences as sociology and cultural studies. Meanwhile, in management sciences, discourse analysis seems to be ignored and marginalized. At first glance, the answer to the question whether discourse analysis supports the research process in the field of management sciences may seem obvious. On the other hand, discourse analysis is relatively rarely used in scientific research and business practice. To understand the possible applications of discourse analysis, the definition of the term was first reviewed. Secondly, phenomena are discussed, the nature of which makes it possible to understand discourse analysis; special attention was paid to public relations. The article ends with a recommendation to improve the synergy effect between management and discourse analysis. Discourse analysis is a difficult and non-obvious research method derived from the humanities, but necessary when it is necessary to study what is hidden in the organization, inaccessible directly to the researcher.
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Welfare spaces of (non)ageing - a discourse perspective
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2013) Wilińska, Monika
The aim of this paper is to articulate an approach for discursive research on welfare cultures of ageing that responds to the challenges facing contemporary research on old age and ageism. It is based on the assumption that to understand conditions under which people are ageing in different countries, various societal levels and actors need to be examined and their roles in setting the old age agenda need to be accounted for. Additionally, this paper reflects upon the welfare spaces of ageing in Poland, spaces where people in Poland grow old and/or are allowed to do so. As a result, this paper indicates the lack of spaces of ageing in the welfare context in Poland. People are expected not to grow old, old age remains a misunderstood phenomenon. Contrary to the excessive knowledge <i>against</i> old age. there is considerable lack of knowledge <i>for</i> old age. Therefore, spaces of non-ageing are invoked in order to elaborate on these processes. Spaces of non-ageing identify various societal domains and show what needs to be done in order not to grow old. Spaces of non-ageing repudiate the idea of old age as something terrifying and, on many occasions, immoral.