Abstract
Negotiating Theoretical Implication in Management Research Article Discussions
Highlights
The research article (RA) has increasingly been portrayed as kind of hybrid promotional genre (Berkenkotter & Huckin, 1995; Bhatia, 2004; Hyland, 2015), with different RA sections having their own distinctive communicative schemes to achieve promotional purposes
To capture more comprehensively the rhetorical functions found in management discussions, the aforementioned conceptual framework of theoretical implication derived from management scholarship and the rhetorical schemes of RA discussion sections noted in the ESP literature served as departure points
Drawing upon genre-based research, this study explores the enactment of a specific Move ‘Establishing theoretical implication’ in management RA discussion sections, and clarifies rhetorical paths for crafting a theoretical contribution
Summary
The research article (RA) has increasingly been portrayed as kind of hybrid promotional genre (Berkenkotter & Huckin, 1995; Bhatia, 2004; Hyland, 2015), with different RA sections having their own distinctive communicative schemes to achieve promotional purposes. Basturkmen, 2012; Nwogu, 1997; Yang & Allison, 2003) This line of studies appears to construe research contribution in general terms, lumping theoretical, practical and methodological implications together into a single category without making meaningful distinctions among them. Among these forms of contribution, advancement of theory stands out as the most articulated and prevalent form within the management discipline This requirement has imposed a formidable burden on management scholars
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