Esta pesquisa está inserida no campo dos Estudos Surdos, que marca uma “posição política e epistemológica” (LOPES, 2007) da surdez como uma diferença, entendendo os surdos como uma minoria linguística e cultural. A educação bilíngue para surdos constitui-se objeto desta investigação, a qual, após a Política de Educação Especial na Perspectiva da Educação Inclusiva (2008), passa a ser a maior pauta de reivindicações do movimento surdo. O problema de pesquisa deste trabalho está assim construído: como diferentes discursos acerca da educação bilíngue para surdos constituem modos específicos de se pensar a escolarização desses sujeitos no cenário brasileiro? De modo geral, objetiva-se analisar discursos que produzem e colocam em funcionamento a educação bilíngue para surdos no cenário educacional brasileiro. Como objetivos específicos propõem-se: 1) identificar enunciados que constituem os discursos produzidos nos documentos selecionados; 2) verificar como se dão as relações de poder-saber nesses discursos; 3) problematizar como esses discursos produzem a educação bilíngue. Para isso, me inspiro em Michel Foucault (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013), olhando para os discursos entendidos como práticas que produzem os objetos sobre os quais fala. O material empírico desta dissertação é constituído de dez documentos, que foram elaborados pelo movimento surdo, representado pela Federação Nacional de Educação e Integração dos Surdos (FENEIS), ou pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC). Esses documentos são compreendidos como práticas que produzem a educação de surdos e, ao mesmo tempo, são constituídos por essas práticas. As noções de saber e poder também se tornam produtivas, pois, nos discursos, há tensionamentos imbricados em relações de saber-poder, que produzem verdades sobre a educação bilíngue. As análises, sobretudo as recorrências observadas, possibilitam construir duas unidades temáticas. Na primeira, verifica-se a utilização de documentos nacionais e internacionais, além de pesquisas acadêmicas e estatísticas, para produzir efeitos de verdade nos discursos. Existem recorrências e silenciamentos na produção dessas verdades, pois se tratam de discursos decorrentes de “princípios político-ideológicos distintos” (LODI, 2013). Na segunda unidade temática, observa-se uma polarização no que diz respeito à educação de surdos, pois são produzidos diferentes sentidos atribuídos à educação bilíngue. Os discursos que circulam no MEC compreendem a surdez como uma deficiência e apontam a educação inclusiva como um direito inalienável. Nesse caso, o surdo estaria incluído na escola comum através de Atendimento Educacional Especializado (AEE) no contraturno, tendo a presença de intérprete de língua de sinais em sala de aula; assim como a língua de sinais é compreendida como um recurso de acessibilidade, já que o surdo não institui uma cultura. Já os discursos que circulam nos documentos produzidos pela FENEIS e por representantes do movimento surdo, a partir do entendimento da surdez como uma diferença linguística e cultural, apontam a necessidade de haver um ambiente linguístico adequado para que os surdos possam ter acesso à educação, o que não é possibilitado nas escolas comuns. A educação bilíngue é, portanto, pensada em espaços diferentes: na escola comum e na escola bilíngue. / This research is part of the field of Deaf Studies, which marks a "political and epistemological position" (Lopes, 2007) of deafness as a difference, understanding the deaf as a linguistic and cultural minority. The bilingual education for deaf is the object of this investigation, which, after the Special Education Policy in the Perspective of Inclusive Education (2008), becomes the greater agenda of the deaf movement . The research problem of this study is thus constructed: how different discourses about bilingual education for deaf are specific ways of thinking about the education of these subjects in the Brazilian scenario? In general, the objective is to analyze discourses that produce and put into operation the bilingual education for the deaf in the Brazilian educational scenario. The specific objectives are proposed: 1) To identify and extract excerpts that constitute the discourses produced in the selected documents; 2) see how they give the relations of power-knowledge in these discourses; 3) discuss how these discourses produce bilingual education. For this, I am inspired by Michel Foucault (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013), looking at the discourses understood as practices that produce the objects upon which they speak about. The empirical material of this thesis consists of ten documents, which were prepared by the deaf movement, represented by the National Federation of Education and Integration of the Deaf (FENEIS), or the Ministry of Education (MEC). These documents are understood as practices that produce deaf education and at the same time, are made up of these practices. The notions of knowledge and power also become productive because, in the speeches, there are tensions interwoven in relations of power-knowledge, producing truths about bilingual education. The analyses, especially the recurrences observed, enable build two thematic units. First, there is the use of national and international documents, as well as academic research and statistics to produce real effects in the speeches. There are recurrences and silences in the production of these truths, since these are discourses due to "different political and ideological principles" (LODI, 2013). The second thematic unit, there is a bias with respect to the education of the deaf, as are produced different meanings attributed to bilingual education. The discourses circulating in the MEC include deafness as a disability and point inclusive education as an inalienable right. Thus, the deaf would be included in regular schools through Educational Service Specialist (ESA) , and the presence of sign language interpreter in the classroom; as well as sign language is understood as an accessibility feature, since the deaf does not establish a culture. Now, the discourses that circulate in the documents produced by FENEIS and representatives of the deaf movement, based on the understanding of deafness as a linguistic and cultural difference, point the need for an appropriate linguistic environment for the deaf to have access to education, which is not allowed in public schools. The bilingual education is thus designed in different spaces: in regular schools and bilingual schools.

Discussing, defining and engaging with ‘terrorism’ has long been limited to the narrowly framed situations in which parties to an asymmetric conflict resort to the use of force and to the legitimacy they have in doing so. The problem with the limited understanding of ‘terrorism’ and ‘counterterrorism’ as ‘facts of objective reality’ is the lack of attention to the role of the extreme asymmetry of power in conflicts involving ‘terrorism’ that does not lend itself to analysis readily. This thesis introduces a new theoretical concept, the Terrorism Complex that signifies the complexity of power/knowledge relations and the complexity of power/knowledge practices that operate on a discursive and non-discursive level through time and are affected by the mechanisms of power that stem from the asymmetry of power between the actors involved in a conflict. The research into the Terrorism Complex involves an ontological and epistemological widening of the research focus to account for these effects of the interplay between power and knowledge on the production, construction and perception of ‘terrorism’. I draw on postmodern scholarship and the Critical Terrorism Studies to present a theoretical and methodological framework that is used to examine the production of knowledge in relation to the asymmetries of power. The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is used as a case study for the study of power asymmetry in the political field that determines who will be labelled a ‘terrorist’ and who will be able to claim the moral high ground. The research also reveals the surprising extent to which the power over discourse obscures the role of the systemic terrorising exercise of state power in inducing ‘terrorism’. The final chapter concentrates on the media’s role in the Terrorism Complex. It applies the findings from other chapters to observe the Terrorism Complex in action.

Les enseignants d’une école publique de Fortaleza (Nordeste du Brésil), accompagnés en cela par un groupe de recherche universitaire, tentent de mettre en acte le principe de l’inclusion scolaire généralisée à tous les enfants en difficulté ou en situation de handicap, tel qu’il est garanti par le cadre législatif brésilien en charge de la mise en oeuvre de la nouvelle politique scolaire énoncée en 1988 par la dernière Constitution Fédérale de ce pays. Dans un premier temps, à travers une rapide histoire de l’école publique et de l’éducation spécialisée au Brésil, ainsi que d’une révision de littérature détaillée sur l’inclusion, il s’agit de mettre en évidence la toile de fond sur laquelle se détache cette action de formation continue dans une perspective inclusive. Dans un second temps, en s’appuyant sur l’oeuvre de Michel Foucault et, complémentairement, sur les réflexions de certains sociologues (Weber, Bourdieu, etc.), une ethnographie de cet accompagnement pédagogique, durant plus de deux ans, va montrer combien une action de formation à visée inclusive constitue une stratégie politique et, par conséquent, n’échappe pas aux relations de domination qui se rencontre dans quelque type de formation que ce soit, y compris de type “traditionnel“ qui paraît, soudain, condamnable. Dans un troisième temps, il s’agit de montrer comment certains “régimes de vérité“, certaines techniques disciplinaires et “technologies de soi“, qui traversent cette formation continue, contribuent à la production d’une multiplicité de savoirs et d’effets de subjectivation qui vont permettre l’émergence de sujets particuliers, qui se définissent en fonction de ce qu’ils ont retiré de cette expérience et en fonction du positionnement qu’ils ont adopté vis-à-vis d’elle. / Monitored in their pedagogical activities by a group of University researchers, the teachers of a public school in Fortaleza try to practice the principle of a generalized school inclusion to all children with special needs, such as is guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. In the first part of the study, through a brief account of both, the public school and special education in Brazil, as well as a careful bibliographical review about inclusion, it is presented the sociopolitical basis on which such an action of continuous formation for inclusion takes place. In the second part, based on the works of Michel Foucault and, complementarily, on the studies of classical sociologists (Weber, Bourdieu, etc.), an etnography of the pedagogical formation, which lasted more than two years, will show how a process of formation with the aim of inclusion constitutes in a political strategy. Therefore, it does not escape from the relations of domination that can be found in any other kind of the so-called “traditional” formation which, in the inclusion environment, is so condemned. In the third part, the study demonstrates how certain “regimes of truth”, disciplinary techniques, and “technologies of self”, which permeates all along the continuous formation, contribute to a production of multiple knowledge and effects of subjectivation that will allow the emergency of unique subjects that define themselves in function of what they took from that experience or in function of the positioning they adopted in regards to it.

This thesis examines the discursive construction of lifelong learning in Swedish, Australian and American policy. Lifelong learning has an aura of apparent self-evidence which this study wishes to challenge by deconstructing the normalised truths in contemporary lifelong learning policies. The thesis rests on a collection of four articles, written by the author within the framework of the PhD programme. Using foucauldian concepts of power/knowledge and governmentality, this study identifies a number of discursive stories about the present in terms of how the ideal society and its ideal citizens are envisioned. It shows that there are national differences in the usage of lifelong learning in terms of the meanings given to life, long and learning. Yet three stories also extend across the nations examined. First, learning is construed as work-related rather than a life-related. Secondly, the positive rhetoric of lifelong learning – the creation of ideal citizens – is accompanied by a parallel story of deviance, incompetence and failure. This leads to a third pervasive story of ‘medicalization’ where the deviant is pathologised as an undesirable other in need of treatment and correction by professionals who operate as the doctors and nurses of lifelong learning. Overall, the analysis suggests that as discourse, lifelong learning links the government of others and the government of the self.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-03-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:42:07Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 bernardes_mr_dr_bauru.pdf: 8043715 bytes, checksum: 6e04a4deeb3e1cd047495dc72deef883 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A expectativa deste estudo é exercitar possibilidades de análise no campo da Educação a partir de um dispositivo estratégico que além de despontar como um caminho teórico possível para o estudo sistemático das formas de poder que controlam, exploram, devastam e exaurem as possibilidades da Educação, ao mesmo tempo permite perceber como estas formas de poder vinculam-se a uma lógica de poder global. Para isso, optamos por utilizar entrevistas com professores de Matemática que possuem posições de comando em instituições de ensino superior na cidade de Maringá (PR). A História Oral, utilizada como método dessa nossa investigação, possibilitou a utilização da memória mais como meio para a análise das ações por ela governadas e menos pelo conhecimento que, pela memória, foi possível registrar. A interconexão entre as opções metodológica e teórica presentes neste estudo possibilitaram a articulação de três elementos que julgamos fundamentais para compreender a Educação como instrumento de distribuição de poderes e saberes: o controle da natureza, o controle social e o autocontrole dos indivíduos / The expectation of this study is to exercise possibilities of analysis in the field of Education based on a strategic approach that, in addition to pointing to a possible theoretical path for the systematic study of forms of power that control, exploit, devastate, and exhaust the possibilities of education, make it possible to perceive how these forms of power are linked to a logic of global power. We opted to use interviews with mathematics professors who are in positions of authority in higher education institutions in the city of Maringá (PR). The method used was oral history, which enabled us to use memory more as a means of analyzing the actions governed by memory, and less for the knowledge it allows us to record. The interconnection between the theoretical and the methodological options in the study made it possible to articulate three elements we judge to be fundamental for understanding education as an instrument of distributing power and knowledge: the control of nature; social control; and individual self-control

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:23:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arquivototal.pdf: 2260924 bytes, checksum: a08d1b3a26b99c8feb09c11784f8155b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The performance of some institution in Brazilian Semi-arid followed the production, distribution and sell from several materials which try to propagate the enunciation knowledges and sayings from convenience. The purpose of this work is to questionate the discourse of acquaintance with the Semi-arid which is transmitted by the cordéis and songs aiming to apprehend how they reveal through the ways of saying and doing these discourse enunciate images and conceptions about the Semi-arid, its people and cultural practices as well as which cultural policies it envolves and what historical culture its produces. The data used were the following: the cordéis produced by ASA (Articulação no Semiárido), and the ones produced by INSA (Instituto Nacional do Semiárido) as well as the Belo Sertão CD: The acquaintance with the Semi-arid by means of songs. In this work the contribution from Michel Foucault is used. The results shows that these productions serves as instruments to institutionals discourses based on communication strategies although they do not limits themselves to promotion of acquaintance in the Semi-arid. The results also demonstrate that these discourses reveal complex procedures of social, economic and political exclusions operation that mobilize past, present and future to show interpretation about the Semi-arid its people and cultural practices. It also reveals that the acquaintances‟ discourses enunciate knowledges and practices to be observed. By means of these questions it was determined that the vinvulation of this study is associated with Regional History research and the area of concentration is History and Historical Culture. / A atuação de algumas instituições no Semiárido Brasileiro acompanhou a produção, distribuição e venda de materiais diversos que buscam difundir os enunciados, saberes e dizeres da convivência. O objetivo deste trabalho é interrogar e problematizar os discursos da convivência com o Semiárido que vêm sendo veiculados por meio dos cordéis e da música buscando apreender como se imprimem, através dos modos de dizer e de fazer que esses discursos enunciam, imagens e concepções sobre o Semiárido, seu povo e suas práticas culturais; bem como, a que cultura(s) política(s) servem e qual cultura(s) histórica(s) produzem. Estas são as fontes utilizadas para a problematização do objeto: os cordéis produzidos pela ASA (Articulação no Semiárido), os cordéis produzidos pelo INSA (Instituto Nacional do Semiárido) e o CD Belo Sertão: A convivência com o Semiárido através da música . Trabalhou-se com a Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, a partir das contribuições de Michel Foucault. A pesquisa mostra que essa produção é instrumento que serve a discursos institucionais específicos assentados sob estratégias de comunicação, embora a elas não se reduza, com vistas à promoção da convivência com o Semiárido e à autopromoção dessas instituições enquanto viabilizadoras dessa convivência; mostra que os discursos da convivência engendram complexas operações de construção/afirmação de uma identidade para o Semiárido que revelam determinados procedimentos de exclusão e que são social, econômica, política e culturalmente úteis operações que mobilizam passado, presente e futuro para conformar interpretações sobre o Semiárido, seu povo e suas práticas culturais; mostra ainda que os discursos da convivência enunciam saberes e práticas, para serem observados e por meio dos quais os indivíduos devem orientar suas ações e pensamentos - regras que inclusive estabelecem do que o olhar deve se desviar em favor da convivência. Pelas questões que problematiza, determinou-se a vinculação deste estudo à linha de pesquisa História Regional e à área de concentração História e Cultura Histórica.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / Monitored in their pedagogical activities by a group of University researchers, the teachers of a public school in Fortaleza try to practice the principle of a generalized school inclusion to all children with special needs, such as is guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988. In the first part of the study, through a brief account of both, the public school and special education in Brazil, as well as a careful bibliographical review about inclusion, it is presented the sociopolitical basis on which such an action of continuous formation for inclusion takes place. In the second part, based on the works of Michel Foucault and, complementarily, on the studies of classical sociologists (Weber, Bourdieu, etc.), an etnography of the pedagogical formation, which lasted more than two years, will show how a process of formation with the aim of inclusion constitutes in a political strategy. Therefore, it does not escape from the relations of domination that can be found in any other kind of the so-called âtraditionalâ formation which, in the inclusion environment, is so condemned. In the third part, the study demonstrates how certain âregimes of truthâ, disciplinary techniques, and âtechnologies of selfâ, which permeates all along the continuous formation, contribute to a production of multiple knowledge and effects of subjectivation that will allow the emergency of unique subjects that define themselves in function of what they took from that experience or in function of the positioning they adopted in regards to it. / Os docentes de uma escola pÃblica de Fortaleza acompanhados em suas atividades pedagÃgicas por um grupo de pesquisa universitÃria, tentam colocar em prÃtica o princÃpio de inclusÃo escolar generalizada a todas as crianÃas em dificuldade ou com deficiÃncia, tal como à garantido pelo quadro legislativo brasileiro encarregado da execuÃÃo da nova polÃtica escolar enunciada em 1988 pela Ãltima ConstituiÃÃo Federal deste paÃs. Em um primeiro tempo, atravÃs duma rÃpida histÃria da escola pÃblica e da educaÃÃo especial no Brasil, assim como de uma cuidadosa revisÃo de literatura sobre a inclusÃo, trata-se de evidenciar o pano de fundo sociopolÃtico sobre o qual se destaca essa aÃÃo de formaÃÃo continua numa perspectiva inclusiva. Em um segundo tempo, apoiando-se sobre as obras de Michel Foucault e, complementarmente, sobre as reflexÃes de certos sociÃlogos (Weber, Bourdieu, ect.), uma etnografia desse acompanhamento pedagÃgico durante mais de dois anos, vai mostrar o quanto uma aÃÃo de formaÃÃo com vista inclusiva constitui uma estratÃgia polÃtica e, portanto, nÃo escapa Ãs relaÃÃes de dominaÃÃo que se encontra em qualquer outro tipo de formaÃÃo, inclusive de tipo âtradicionalâ e que parece, de repente, condenÃvel. Em um terceiro tempo, trata-se de mostrar como certos âregimes de verdadeâ, certas tÃcnicas disciplinares e âtecnologias do euâ, que atravessam essa formaÃÃo contÃnua, contribuam para a produÃÃo de uma multiplicidade de saberes e de efeitos de subjetivaÃÃo que vÃo permitir a emergÃncia de sujeitos particulares que se definem em funÃÃo do que eles retiraram dessa experiÃncia ou em funÃÃo do posicionamento que adotaram nela

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T18:56:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Norma Maccarini.pdf: 530785 bytes, checksum: 390e93b84b80cb1bec2a3ea7aadf5511 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-03-03 / This paper aims to socialize a case study carried out in a municipal public school in Cascavel- PR, with the teacher and a group of students from fourth grade of elementary school. The research had the objective of investigating how the teacher s speech produces school math culture while teaching Math to students, taking into account the web of relations established in the classroom. A choice for a qualitative, ethnographic research was made for the development of the work. The considerations on the case was based on theoretical contributions of Foucault, D Ambrosio, Silva, Veiga-Neto, and some others contemporary theorists. Such considerations pointed to the relations among knowledge, power and truth that go through the teacher s discoursive practice in the interaction with the students in classroom, or in the production of school math culture. The results point to the fact that the social is built on a plurality of discourses that get intersectec in a complex game of power relations. In this game, speech does not reveal the individual s autonomy over his own knowledge; instead, individual-positions are noticed within the discourse. In this sense, the individuals express themselves in this game of power relations, according to the situation allowed by their social place, and in the same way individual-positions are built within a social formation, they determine and are determined by discoursive practices. From this, it was concluded that the production of school math culture is straightly connected to power, knowledge and truth relations that permeate the discoursive practices of Mariana, the Math teacher, in the interaction with her students. Her practice determines and is determined by the discourse order of Math and Math education to which the teacher is subordinated, given the position that the person has at the educational institution. / Este trabalho tem por fim socializar um estudo de caso realizado numa escola pública municipal de Cascavel-PR. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são a professora e os alunos de uma turma de quarta série do Ensino Fundamental. A investigação objetivou entender como, na teia de relações que se estabelecem em sala de aula, a prática discursiva da professora ao ensinar Matemática produz cultura matemática escolar. Para tanto, optou-se pela pesquisa qualitativa, de cunho etnográfico. A reflexão pautou-se nos referenciais teóricos de Foucault, D Ambrosio, Silva, Veiga-Neto e outros pensadores da contemporaneidade, reflexão esta que apontou para as relações entre saber, poder e verdade que permeiam a prática discursiva da professora na interação com os alunos, ou na produção da cultura matemática escolar. Os resultados apontam para o fato de que o social é construído na pluralidade de discursos que se entrecruzam num complexo jogo de relações de poder. Este jogo em que o discurso não revela a autonomia de um sujeito sobre seu próprio pensamento, mas antes, o que se concretiza no discurso são posições-de-sujeito. Os sujeitos se manifestam nesse jogo conforme a situação que o lugar por eles ocupado lhes possibilita e, assim como as posições-de-sujeito se constituem dentro de uma formação social, estas determinam e são determinadas por práticas discursivas. Conclui-se que a produção da cultura matemática escolar está diretamente ligada às relações de poder, saber e verdade que permeiam a prática discursiva da professora na interação com seus alunos. Prática esta que determina e é determinada pela ordem do discurso da Matemática e da Educação Matemática a que está subordinada a professora, dada a posição de sujeito que ocupa na instituição escolar.

Using two reports from the The Riksdag’s Social Affairs Committee, this essay has examined and analyzed discourses that are expressed in how the Riksdag describes the social services. The material has been analyzed using critical discourse analysis and Foucalts terms Power/knowledge to see what can be said about how the social services are described and constructed.   The dicourses I could identify in the material was a legal discourse where the social service is defined based on legislation where the words used to describe the goal of the social services is not being discussed. Knowledge-based discourse where the social service is mainly described in terms of a flawed organization and where the solution is more knowledge, a discourse I chose to call unity where a consensus is manifested regarding the social services and finally the formalized discourse where there is indications of a discursive change towards a higher level of formalized language-use that affects how the Riksdag constructs the social services.     This essay also discusses the importance of examining how the Riksdag constructs the social services through the use of language and that how they use the language affects how the social services is understood which impacts the social work. Lastly I argue that an examination of how power/knowledge is expressed is needed to, among other things, make it possible to introduce alternative and new discourses. / Den här uppsatsen har genom två betänkanden från riksdagens socialutskott undersökt och analyserat de diskurser som kommer till uttryck i hur riksdagen framställer socialtjänsten. Genom kritisk diskursanalys och Foucaults begrepp makt/kunskap har materialet analyserats för att se vad Foucaults begrepp kan säga oss om hur socialtjänsten framställs.     Diskurser jag kunde identifiera i materialet var en juridisk diskurs där socialtjänsten definieras utifrån lagstiftning där betydelsen av begrepp som beskriver socialtjänsten inte diskuteras. En kunskapsdiskurs där socialtjänsten främst beskrivs i termer av en organisation som brister och vars lösning är mer kunskap, en diskurs jag valt att kalla enighetsdiskursen där det manifesteras en enighet och där konflikter inte synliggörs, och till sist formaliseringsdiskursen som indikerar en diskursiv förändring mot ett mer formaliserat språkbruk kring bland annat socialtjänsten som påverkar hur riksdagen yttrar sig angående socialtjänsten.     Vidare diskuteras vikten av att rikta fokus mot hur riksdagen använder språk för att konstruera socialtjänsten och hur det påverkar förståelsen av socialtjänsten samt hur det i sin tur påverkar det sociala arbetet. Dessutom menar jag att processer kring hur makt/kunskap utövas behöver synliggöras, bland annat för att möjliggöra introduktionen av nya och alternativa diskurser.

Aim – The aim of this study is to explore how Management accountants (MAs) participate in strategic management processes nowadays and to explain reasons for potential differences in involvement of MAs in strategic management processes between different organizations.Method - The study is based on a multi-case study approach conducted among three independent companies in Sweden. The information from semi-structural interviews with MAs and archival data in form of job announcements for Senior MAs positions is used to analyze and cross-check the relationship. The time-horizon is cross-sectional.Findings - The study shows that involvement of MAs in strategic management processes varies a lot within organizations being influenced by the following factors: personal traits, business knowledge, relationship with management and established role. Some major variations on cross-company level are identified between subsidiary and HQ, and between representatives of different capital ownership forms.Conclusions - The study suggests that power imbalance in organizations hinders applying critical thinking and expressing objective opinion by MAs, that makes it difficult to claim a fully explicit business-partner role. Process of MAs’ involvement in the strategic management decision making presents a product of interrelation between two strategies for legitimizing of truth claims proposed by Heizmann and Olsson (2015): executing power of authority and executing power of expertise.