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WILLIAMSON Josef Faculty of Business Administration Department of Business Management Associate Professor

■ Title
Discursive leadership in intercultural group decision-making.

■ Outline
  Management studies have long focused on decision-making as a locus of power in organizations (Maznevski, 1994). Since the 1980s, this focus has included a consideration of culture because with an increase in the cultural diversity of people involved in inter- and intra- organizational decision-making, culturally oriented differences have become more relevant for organizations (Sagie & Aycan, 2003). Cultural differences relate to how much participation there is in decision-making (Sagie & Aycan, 2003), which discursive forums it takes place in (Brislin & Nab, 2004; Misumi, 1984), and what styles of discourse are appropriate (Noorderhaven & Keizer, 2007; Yates & de Oliveira, 2016). Group decision-making discourse has received significant attention in professional communication research recently in that it exemplifies a discursive view of leadership (e.g., Aritz & Walker, 2014; Baxter, 2014; Clifton, 2012; Du-Babcock & Tanaka, 2016; Walker & Aritz, 2015). Some of this research has begun to focus on the decision-making discourse of culturally diverse groups in an attempt to understand how different styles come into conflict or are accommodated (Aritz & Walker, 2014; Du-Babcock & Tanaka, 2016). This is an important nascent area of research because the findings may help to make intercultural group decision-making more inclusive by revealing how people are empowered or disempowered based on the communication styles they adopt. To assess the current state of knowledge, this article reviews literature from management and communication studies about group decision-making, English as a lingua franca and discursive leadership.
  Williamson, Josef
  Single   Daito Bunka Keieironshu   Daito Bunka University Keieikenkyujo   (42/43),pp.169   2022/03