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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is just an introduction as requested on the
invitation to the list. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm a full-time lecturer at Dublin Institute of
Technology's Business Faculty in Ireland and am doing a part-time postgrad at
Brunel University West London. I'm interested in what I initially called the
strategic thinking of managers.After much good counsel and more recently reading
Potter & Wetherell's (1987) Discourse and Social Psychology I'm busily
redefining what I'm studying. In 1990 I took a Masters in Economics at
Cork where D. McCloskey's Rhetoric of Economics was a favorite reading. Though I
still teach a lot of economics it is very much in a management school
context.... indeed if pushed on my disciplinary loyalties I describe myself a
recovering economist.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm looking forward to some initial lurking on the
list but hope I'll soon be able to contribute.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brendan.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brendan O’ROURKE<BR>Faculty of Business,<BR>Dublin
Institute of Technology<BR>Mountjoy Square,<BR>Dublin 1,
<BR>IRELAND.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Telephone +353-1-4024186.<BR>Email: <A
href="mailto:Brendan.ORourke@dit.ie">Brendan.ORourke@dit.ie</A> <BR>Web: <A
href="http://www.dit.ie/bus/mgmnt/orourke/index.html">http://www.dit.ie/bus/mgmnt/orourke/index.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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