Narrative, life story and manager identity
A case study in autobiographical identity work
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 7435015 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Tony J Watson (Organizational Behaviour at Nottingham University Business School,, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2009 |
| Volumen | 62 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 425-452 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2009-02-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Editorial | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0018726708101044 |
| OpenAlex | W2171877591 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 105 |
| Referencias citadas | 43 |
To study and better understand people's working lives and organizational involvement in the context of their whole lives and in the context of the societal culture in which they have grown up and now live, it is helpful to bring together three key concepts of narrative, identity work and the social construction of reality. Such a move can be connected to the abandonment of widely used but limiting concepts, such as that of`managerial identity'. The essentially sociological nature of this move also provides an antidote to the equally limiting tendency towards the `narrative imperialism' which is associated with the idea of the `narrative self'. The value of the suggested theoretical framing and its linking of narrative, identity work and social construction is demonstrated by the close analysis of a large private autobiography of a former manager. This individual's identity work simultaneously uses discursively available narratives and creates new narratives (many small stories being embedded in one large life story), all within the framework of history, social structure and culture
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| Obras citantes distintas | 105 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 6,18 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | Sí |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 105 |