Organizational Records as Genres: An Analysis of the “Documentary Reality” of Organizations from the Perspectives of Diplomatics, Records Management, and Rhetorical Genre Studies
Genre Theory in Information Studies
ISBN: 978-1-78441-255-5, eISBN: 978-1-78441-254-8
ISSN: 2055-5377
Publication date: 6 February 2015
Abstract
Originality/value
Drawing on rhetorical genre studies, this chapter offers an inclusive, situated, and dynamic view of organizational records that is in line with postmodern accounts of recordkeeping. The new reading of basic archival concepts and methods proposed in this chapter especially contributes to enrich the theoretical framework of records management, which has traditionally been represented as a technical discipline supporting unspecific ideas of organizational effectiveness.
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Citation
Foscarini, F. (2015), "Organizational Records as Genres: An Analysis of the “Documentary Reality” of Organizations from the Perspectives of Diplomatics, Records Management, and Rhetorical Genre Studies", Genre Theory in Information Studies (Studies in Information, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 115-132. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-537720140000011007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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