%0 Journal Article
%T Left in the Dust: Employee Constructions of Mission and Vision Ownership
%A Irina M. Kopaneva
%J International Journal of Business Communication
%@ 2329-4892
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2329488415604457
%X Research on organizational mission and vision primarily has approached the concepts from managerial perspectives. This study employed a communicative constitution of organizations perspective to problematize the concepts of mission/vision alignment and assimilation and to focus on employee mission/vision ownership. The study sought to understand how employees construct ownership, that is, their ability to control, change, or contribute to mission and vision. A thematic analysis of 46 in-depth interviews with employees from 22 organizations revealed factors that impede employee ownership and those that facilitate it. The findings have important implications for understanding an employee¡¯s role in the construction of organizational reality
%K communicative constitution of organizations
%K CCO
%K mission ownership
%K vision ownership
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2329488415604457