... conditions, norm and beliefs, or narrative accounts but are simultaneously drawing on all these resources. In the field of organization theory, the so‐called linguistic turn (Alvesson and Kärreman, 2000) has dominated research on identity, rendering professional and occupational identities a matter...

... of current debates relating to leadership development. Helen Dickinson can be contacted at: h.e.dickinson@bham.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Health services Narratives Leadership Performance management Peck et al. (2009) suggest that, although viewing...

..., involving a life‐history approach to generate subjective narratives of how individuals establish and sustain leadership. Findings The empirical data highlights that elements of authentic leadership theory resonate in practice. Senior leaders' life histories and in particular negative trigger events...