DIT PhD Project
Supervisor name & contact details:
Supervisor: Dr. Brendan K.O’Rourke
Brendan.ORourke@dit.ie
Supervisors Profile:
Academic location
School of Marketing, College of Business.
Research Centre (if applicable):
Business, Society and Sustainability Research
Centre.
The Centre is committed to critical and creative
analysis and reflection on the impacts of
business on the wider society and the impact
of the wider society on business. Central to
these impacts is the theme of sustainability
understood not only in its ecological sense but
also in the sense of the ability of business to
maintain ethical and political legitimacy
through creating value in the long-term.
Research Centre website (if applicable):
http://www.dit.ie/bssrc/
Supervisors Publication List:
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Title of the Project (s): Discourse & communications organizing & constructing the economy
There is considerable potential for a number of PhD and postgraduate level research projects in
the areas of analysing how discourse and communications organize and construct the economy.
Such areas might include
1) how business discourses are produced and consumed by experts, businesses and the
public (O’Rourke, 2014; FitzGerald & O’Rourke, 2012)
2) how diverse expert discourses interact creatively, confusingly & strategically in
organizations (Duffy & O’Rourke, 2014; Tangney, Freeman & O'Rourke, 2014)
3) how key economic discourses such as enterprise, elitism or austerity circulate through
organizations, business & policy ( O’Rourke, 2010; O’Rourke & Hogan, 2013; 2014).
References
Duffy, M., & O’Rourke, B. K. (2014). Dialogue in Strategy Practice A Discourse Analysis of a
Strategy Workshop. International Journal of Business Communication, 1-23. doi:
10.1177/2329488414525455
Fitzgerald, J. K., & O'Rourke, B. K. (2012). Young men consuming newspaper prostitution: A
discourse analysis of responses to Irish newspaper coverage of prostitution. Irish
Communications Review, 13(1), 145-155.
O'Rourke, B. K. (2010). Enterprise Discourse: Its Origins and its Influence in Ireland. In J. Hogan, P.
F. Donnelly & B. K. O'Rourke (Eds.), Irish Business & Society: Governing, Participating &
Transforming in the 21st Century (pp. 69-89). Dublin Gilll & McMillan
O'Rourke, B. K. (2014, forthcoming). Learning from interacting: Language, economics and the
entrepreneur. On the Horizon: Special Issue on Language and Economics.
O'Rourke, B. K., & Hogan, J. (2014). Guaranteeing failure: neoliberal discourse in the Irish
economic crisis. Journal of Political Ideologies, 19(1), 41-59. doi:
10.1080/13569317.2013.869456
O'Rourke, B. K., & Hogan, J. (2013). Reflections in the eyes of a dying tiger: Looking back on
Ireland’s 1987 economic crisis In A. De Rycker & Z. Mohd Don (Eds.), Discourse and crisis:
Critical perspectives. (Vol. 52, pp. 215-238). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Tangney, D., Freeman, O., & O'Rourke, B. K. (2014 forthcoming ). Performing collaborative
creativity: Learning from diverse experts interacting in Ireland’s Science Gallery. Paper
presented at the 30th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloqium, Rotterdam.