"Omega-team is moving to another premise over my dead body…" Power as discursive- material practice in an IS project

摘要: Using Foucault's (e.g., 1980) view on discourses and power, this Critical Discourse Analysis study examines how power circulates through material-discursive practices in IS development projects. The findings of indicate that one the key projects is what we call 'guaranteeing equality rationality' – it sets up technical-rational ideal masks presence politics project. However, as progress, often begins to crumble with such 'selective ignoring', 'forbidding', 'hiding', 'criticizing' emerging each their own characteristic linguistic moves material objects mediating practices. Each these can be called ‘power-resistance’ cycles short, same practice may harnessed for achieving effect (exercising power) or employed achievement an alternative resistance power).