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Communication and Power in Organizations: Discourse, Ideology and Domination.
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1990
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Behavioral Decision MakingEgo EnhancementCommunicationPower RelationSocial SciencesManagementBusiness CommunicationAction PlanningCommunication StrategyDiscourse AnalysisCommunication ActivismCognitive ScienceBehavioral SciencesNonrational ViewStrategyLast ChapterInteractive Decision MakingSocial CognitionPlanning TheoryPerformance StudiesOrganizational CommunicationInterpersonal CommunicationPlanning PracticeArts
The book's last chapter pursues a nonrational view of planning rooted in psychodynamics. Drawing from work on autocommunication, Broms and Gahmberg treat plans as forms of intrapersonal communicationprojecting hope, vision, and ego enhancement. This chapter echoes the position that the process of planning is more salient than the product or its implementation. The authors, however, need to distinguish their view of planning from conceptualizations of plans as advertisements, as games, or as excuses for interaction (March and Olsen, 1979; Weick, 1979).