This study employed a cultural materialist framework to examine organizational culture through the analysis of discourse at the National Communications Authority in Ghana (NCA-Ghana), the state-sanctioned regulator of the communications industry in the country. The study explored the interconnections among neoliberalism, colonialism, and organizational culture through an examination of discourses of professionalism and individualization. Using the discourse historical approach (DHA), the study found that neoliberalism functions in corporatized African organizations by activating colonial logics which in turn influence organizational culture. An important implication of the study is that, even for the individual, organizational culture is not merely symbolic but has material consequences. Because of these consequences, resistance efforts may not always look different from practices that reproduce dominant discourses.

本研究采用文化唯物主义框架，通过对加纳国家通信管理局 (NCA-Ghana) 的话语分析来检验组织文化，该机构是该国国家认可的通信行业监管机构。该研究通过对专业主义和个性化话语的审查，探讨了新自由主义、殖民主义和组织文化之间的相互联系。使用话语历史方法 (DHA)，该研究发现，新自由主义通过激活殖民逻辑在非洲公司化组织中发挥作用，而殖民逻辑又反过来影响组织文化。该研究的一个重要含义是，即使对个人而言，组织文化不仅是象征性的，而且具有物质后果。因为这些后果，