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<sec><h3>Background and research aims</h3>
<p>Since scholarly texts on management have been criticised as being no longer effective in communicating today's changing sociocultural, disciplinary, and practical contexts, my purpose in this paper is to conceptualise the identity options management authors can assume to communicate disciplinary knowledge and beliefs.</p>
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<sec><h3>Theoretical perspective</h3>
<p>The theoretical perspectives involved in this analysis include selected aspects of <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_ijcm-2021-0007_ref_018">Harré and van Langenhove's (1999)</xref> positioning theory that I linked with my model of writer identity as a trichotomy of selves (individual self, collective self, depersonalised self), textually conveyed in the three types of voice (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_ijcm-2021-0007_ref_031">Lehman, 2018</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_ijcm-2021-0007_ref_032">Lehman and Sułkowski, 2020</xref>).</p>
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<sec><h3>Key findings</h3>
<p>Based on this conceptual framework, specific advice is provided as to how academics can create a reader-inclusive or authoritative writer persona in their texts. In doing so, I support the recent efforts in Critical Management Studies (CMS) to ‘write differently’ in order to address the aesthetic, moral, and political concerns of writing in the field.</p>
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Background and research aims
Since scholarly texts on management have been criticised as being no longer effective in communicating today's changing sociocultural, disciplinary, and practical contexts, my purpose in this paper is to conceptualise the identity options management authors can assume to communicate disciplinary knowledge and beliefs.

Theoretical perspective
The theoretical perspectives involved in this analysis include selected aspects of Harré and van Langenhove's (1999) positioning theory that I linked with my model of writer identity as a trichotomy of selves (individual self, collective self, depersonalised self), textually conveyed in the three types of voice (Lehman, 2018; Lehman and Sułkowski, 2020).

Key findings
Based on this conceptual framework, specific advice is provided as to how academics can create a reader-inclusive or authoritative writer persona in their texts. In doing so, I support the recent efforts in Critical Management Studies (CMS) to ‘write differently’ in order to address the aesthetic, moral, and political concerns of writing in the field.

Exploring identity positionings in scholarly texts on management

International Journal of Contemporary Management

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Background and research aims
Since scholarly texts on management have been criticised as being no longer effective in communicating today's changing...

Exploring identity positionings in scholarly texts on management

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Aug 23, 2022

Page range: 1 - 8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijcm-2021-0007

Keywords
writing differently, management writing, positioning theory, writer identity, authorial voice

© 2021 Iga Lehman, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Exploring identity positionings in scholarly texts on management

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Aug 23, 2022

Page range: 1 - 8

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijcm-2021-0007

Keywordswriting differently, management writing, positioning theory, writer identity, authorial voice

© 2021 Iga Lehman, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
writing differently, management writing, positioning theory, writer identity, authorial voice