... 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...

...” 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...

.... 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...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Fieldwork Mess Methodology Narrative Qualitative research Reflexivity Story Research methods Narratives Storytelling In the beginning, we were three different scholars engaged in fieldwork through our varied research endeavors...

... the media play in creating and sustaining dirty work? 8. What can mainstream organization studies learn from dirty work research? © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Managers Narratives Work identity Article Type: Call for papers From: Qualitative Research...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Managers Narratives Work identity Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy The objective of the Congress is to disseminate qualitative health research and to provide a forum for the discussion of the process...

... and philosopher Bakhtin, in understanding the portrayal of managerial identity in management narratives. In particular, it applies these ideas critically to understand how managers’ identities are partly shaped by the dominant discourse or idea about what a manager should “be.” Design/methodology/approach...

...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...

... the internal operations of development organisations, as a particular type of organisation, is therefore important for building equity into development projects and programmes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Qualitative methods Narratives Gender Organizational culture...

...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...