Narrative, politics and legitimacy in an IT implementation

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This paper offers an interpretation of an information technology (IT) implementation through an analysis of group narratives. A focus on narrative is valuable because it facilitates recognition of the extent to which interpretive research involves the creation and ascription of meaning in ways that require authorial reflexivity. An analysis based on group narratives, which incorporate plurivocal understandings of action and events, is also a means by which polysemy can more easily be read back into ethnography. The research contribution this paper makes is twofold. First, it exemplifies the importance of narratives for individuals and groups in their attempts to understand and give meaning to their technologies and working lives. Second, it illustrates how narratives can be deployed in political attempts to legitimate their actions and interests. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Management, Personal narratives, Information technology, Work groups, Teamwork (Workplace), Narration (Rhetoric), Narration

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Organizational identity and place: a discursive exploration of hegemony and resistance

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A study on three groups of cohort workers and examining their understanding of their groups' and organizations' identities, which in turn identified their identities, is presented. These group of workers belong to a United Kingdom based College of Further Education.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Executive changes & profiles, Colleges and universities, Officials and employees, Universities and colleges, Organizational behaviour

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A narrative approach to collective identities

Article Abstract:

The article interprets the significance of collective identity for organizations.

Influence, Organizational effectiveness

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