Official chronicles of corporate globalization and unofficial stories of international mobility: Resisting patronage of meaning? Available to Purchase

The purpose of this paper is to analyse contradictions, similarities, and differences between official corporate chronicles and individual stories of international managers of a multinational company.

The analysis was made following methodological and technical approaches of critical analysis of narratives and organizational discourse of an ethnography conducted in a multinational corporation.

It is suggested that contradictions, similarities, and differences are ways that managers have to resist patronage and imposition of meanings. Implications for organizations are suggested.

The discursive manipulation of the meaning of time as a way of organizational patronage is considered.