... – within the same healthcare organisation narrate their experiences of the “newcomers’ establishment” and how they think the organisation should be understood. In line with other organisational studies departing from narrative analysis, this narrative study focuses on how newcomers portray the healthcare...

...Annemiek van Os; Dick de Gilder; Cathy van Dyck; Peter Groenewegen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore sensemaking of incidents by health care professionals through an analysis of the role of professional identity in narratives of incidents. Using insights from social identity...

.... Design/methodology/approach The methodology development was challenging; to capture the level of abstraction within which it was positioned. Using narrative inquiry allowed for a less rigid methodology, data collection and analysis. The data were collected using a non‐structured single interview...

... as the empirical data from which the conceptual framework evolves. The concepts of identity, power and self are analysed in relation to the narrative utilising a post‐structuralist, critical management lens, particularly drawing from Foucault. Findings The paper reflects and critiques the challenges...

... as an initial step to address the absence of such important critical research. A total of 30 written life history narratives were obtained from nurses working with and using CAM to explore such matters as professional boundaries and nurses' authentication strategies and conceptualisation and operationalisation...

..., interpretist orientation which relies on an ideographic, inductive generation of theory. I situate myself, both as researcher and chief executive of the organisation studied, in the narrative of sensemaking. Using semi‐structured interviews and a combination of grounded theory and template analysis to generate...

...Sybil Myerson Doctors′ activities and stresses are linked and can be viewed closely only as a sequence of actors and behaviours, or a narrative. Examines such narratives from which the individualized stress emerges plainly. Emphasizes that the researcher is involved in a narrative of her own life...