Esa Lehtinen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Esa Lehtinen is involved.
2025 Emergent professional practices: The construction of an institutional trainer role in a creative workshop Language and Dialogue 15:3, pp. 438–468 | Article
This article investigates the professional practices of creative entrepreneurs. The data come from organizational training workshops provided by a photographic artist who acts in a new training profession and uses art-based methods for the purposes of organizational development. Utilizing… read more
2025 When the discourse of strategy meets the discourse of spirituality: A study of the recontextualization of strategy discourse in a Church organization Pragmatics and Society 16:5, pp. 701–725 | Article
A well-established body of research in organizational studies shows how business-oriented strategy discourse has spread to different organizations and to society at large. Drawing insights from this research, we in this paper study how strategy discourse intertwines with the spiritual and… read more
2024 Perceiving the organisation through a coding scheme: The construction of managerial expertise in organisational training Pragmatics 34:3, pp. 422–446 | Article
In contemporary organisations, managerial expertise is increasingly viewed as an ability to reflect on activities, processes and human relations within organisational life in order to gain a systemic understanding of the workings of the organisation. This article examines the interactional… read more
2024 Negotiating leader identities through indirect mockery in talk about decision-making in a distributed leadership context Language and Dialogue 14:1, pp. 122–151 | Article
In this article, we scrutinise how humour, and in particular, indirect mockery contributes to the construction of leader identities in talk about decision-making in an organisation characterized by a distributed leadership context. So rather than focusing on decision-making episodes themselves,… read more
2015 Conducting a task while reconstructing its meaning: Interaction, professional identities and recontextualization of a written task assignment Pragmatics 25:3, pp. 393–423 | Article
This article investigates the way an institutional task of a meeting is oriented to by different meeting participants and developed in and through local interaction. Our data come from a city organization, where a large organizational change is planned and prepared through a series of face-to-face… read more
2014 Initiating activity shifts through use of appraisal forms as material objects during performance appraisal interviews Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity, Nevile, Maurice, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa (eds.), pp. 57–78 | Article
This study shows how participants of performance appraisal interviews use appraisal forms as material objects in initiations of activity shifts. Participants negotiate their willingness to proceed from one interview item to another by gazing at, pointing toward and manipulating the forms. This… read more