... studies. The authors apply a Bourdieusian perspective, where the authors focus on the narratives told by standard inventers, managers and nurses to examine and understand their strategizing activities in relation to safety standardization. We understand strategizing as interested action emerging...

.... Design/methodology/approach Employing narrative research, the process of individual opposition to established work routines is illustrated at the level of meaning, identity and self‐reflection by using the three‐dimensional narrative inquiry space to chronicle three participants’ stories. Their newly...

.... The authors’ aim is to explore this aspect of researching in connection with the narratives of researchers as they oscillate between past and present, theory and empiricism. Design/methodology/approach The authors first draw on the concept of “bricolage” to validate informal research practices...

...” of conducting doctoral research, five years earlier and re‐searched for the paper, by composing a fictional narrative that aims to capture some of the emotional and other complexities of the process. Findings The author demonstrates that fictionalisation opens possibilities for a deeper probing...

... these untold stories, we wish to give them life and engage with them through a reflexive and critical stance. This is the challenge that the authors of the papers in this special issue have taken up. They have responded by sharing a kaleidoscopic range of narratives, whose rough edges and emotional qualities...

... force'', Human Relations, Vol. 58 No. 11, pp. 1363-90. Hughes, E. (1958), Men and Their Work, Free Press, Glencoe, IL. Scope © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Managers Narratives Work identity Article Type: Call for papers From...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Managers Narratives Work identity Such participation in the health promotion process is a key opportunity,because it may: improve relationships among healthcare providers and patients; provide new information that could...

... Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of a dialogical approach, associated with the Russian literary critic and philosopher Bakhtin, in understanding the portrayal of managerial identity in management narratives. In particular, it applies these ideas critically...

...Andrew F. Herrmann Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore narratives in a new nonprofit arts center. It includes the macro‐, meso‐, and personal narratives that keep the center organized in the midst of the chaotic everyday activities. It advocates the explanatory force of narrative...

.... Design/methodology/approach The paper investigates three e‐mails sent by Doug to the author. The e‐mails constitute a form of naturally occurring data, and through forms of narrative analysis the e‐mails are able to be examined to throw light on the process of expatriate adjustment. Findings...

... empowerment. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Qualitative methods Narratives Gender Organizational culture Organizational change This section introduces the design and implementation of the diary project and raises some discussion points from my practical experience. I...

...Steve McKenna Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of a dialogical approach, associated with the Russian literary critic and philosopher Bakhtin, in understanding the portrayal of managerial identity in management narratives. In particular, it applies these ideas critically...

...Paula Hyde Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of stories in a mental health environment. It includes an account of learning to read and recognise stories as a particular form of organizational narrative in the National Health Service (NHS). Design/methodology/approach...

...Nancy E. Landrum Purpose This paper examines the letters to shareholders of Nike, Inc. and Reebok over the period 1990‐1999. Using narrative analysis, the purpose of this paper is to show how strategic intent of these two companies is revealed through their letters to shareholders. Design...

... which, to do it and the research justice, required an alternative form of representation. Intuition decreed that this should be narrative. However, grounded theory and narrative entail epistemologically and ontologically incommensurate paradigms. The paper seeks to consider whether inclusion...

... readings. These alternative readings emphasize the influence of various discourses on the construction of the earlier paper, and also introduce a reading of the earlier paper as a psychoanalytic narrative. Findings The paper highlights the uses to which “objective tools” of analysis can be put in order...