... changed in line with the company's increasing volume of projects. Design/methodology/approach The stance taken is to define firm‐based projects as temporary organisations embedded in, and coupled to their parent company. Narratives of employees' working history were combined with historical company...

... an identity construction perspective on narratives of global careerists' working lives. Design/methodology/approach Through a narrative approach, 20 interviews with Swedish global careerists were analyzed and comparison of two types of global careerists was made – repeat expatriates and international...

... of the participants (Kvale, 1996). Anne Live Vaagaasar can be contacted at: anne.l.vaagaasar@bi.no © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Project management Competences Stakeholder analysis Narratives Based on an in‐depth study of a complex technology project, this paper discusses...

... on a qualitative case study of the two project managers' sensemaking processes in the face of a single unexpected event. Narrative interviews were used as the method for data collection. The actantial framework by Greimas was used in analyzing the interview narratives. Findings The paper shows how the project...

... it. Design/methodology/approach The approach is narrative and builds on exploratory storytelling which is common in the social sciences but quite non‐traditional in the PM sphere. Findings The paper explores the kind of arguments people might have when defending their perceptions of what a project...