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Van De Mieroop, Dorien, Clifton, Jonathan and Schnurr, Stephanie (2022) Narratives as social practice in organisational contexts. Narrative Inquiry, 32 (1). pp. 1-8. doi:10.1075/ni.21090.van ISSN 1387-6740 .
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.21090.van
Abstract
Organizational studies, as a discipline, has displayed a strong interest in the use of narrative analysis to investigate issues of concern to scholars, such as those around sense-making, communication, politics and power, learning and change, as well as identity and identification (Rhodes & Brown, 2005). However, much, though of course not all, of this research has tended to focus on ‘big’ stories – i.e., “those derived from interviews, clinical encounters, autobiographical writing, and other such interrogative venues” (Freeman, 2006, p. 131) – and has paid little attention to small stories – i.e., “those derived from everyday social exchanges” (Freeman, 2006, p. 131; see also Georgakopoulou, 2006). Moreover, these ‘big’ stories are often analysed as decontextualized end-products (the outcome). Consequently, the fine-grained detail of the exact formulation of stories (the medium), which necessarily has an impact on the narrative as product, is often overlooked. Furthermore, other aspects of the storytelling activity, such as the extent to which narratives are told in collaboration with others – ranging from interviewers for ‘big’ stories to co-tellers for ‘small’ stories – and questions around why particular narratives are told at one particular point in time and place rather than at another tend to receive much less attention (though see Clifton et al., 2020). Yet, we argue that these aspects of storytelling are particularly deserving of academic attention. This is because they enable researchers to obtain a much more multi-facetted insight into how narratives are produced and how they work in the specific context in which they occur. This is exactly what a narrative as social practice-approach capitalizes on, namely the actual in situ telling of the stories (De Fina & Georgakopoulou, 2008). It has a clear emphasis on the analysis of stories as sequentially organized dialogic constructions which are embedded in the local business of the storytellers and which are rhetorically and recipient designed to ‘do things’ such as blaming, accounting for action, building acceptable moral identities, and so on.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Organizational behavior, Discourse analysis, Narrative, Narration (Rhetoric), Storytelling, Corporate culture, Organizational sociology | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Narrative Inquiry | ||||||||
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Co. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1387-6740 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | January 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 32 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-8 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1075/ni.21090.van | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 March 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 March 2022 | ||||||||
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