MOU Convergence: Public Sector Discourse and Practice

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Copyright: 2019
Pages: 26
Source title: Social Partnership and Governance Under Crises
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Carol Nelson (University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8961-7.ch007

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Government & Law / Government and Law / Public & Sector Management

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The origin and elements contributing to the emergent characteristics of “traditional” public sector discourse and practice are explored contextualized to the Jamaican state. Dimensions of these traditional characteristics are subsequently altered and contested in the process of the public sector actor network being translated through convergence into the MOU actor network of relations. Text, representative of struggle, and discoursal contests emerge, reflective of the rigour of the convergence process. Texts reveal outcomes in terms of governance for the sector as the public sector responds to the inscription as well as embracing new genres and social practices with the operationalization and inculcation of MOU discourse and practice. CDA is valued as an approach to examine and probe the nature of the connectivity in and between actor networks of the MOU social partnership and reveal the implications for the traditional discourse and practice of the public sector.

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