Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to put discursive analysis into practice empirically. Discursive Analysis has gained attention in recent years as a methodology in institutional organization theory. However, few case studies offer suggestions regarding the agnostic stance-a fundamental and significant concept in discourse analysis-mainly because of the difficulty in understanding the distinctive standpoint of discourse analysis. Therefore, in order to understand the methodological viewpoint of discourse analysis, we first clarify the meanings of and relationships between key concepts related to institutional organization theory and discourse analysis. We then attempt to analyze discourses concerning freelance workers and to consider the theoretical implications of the results.
