TY - JOUR
T1 - Managing to beat death
T2 - The narrative construction process
AU - Hansen, Hans
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce narrative construction, a method by which participants produce a narrative to make sense of their organizational context, as well as strategically guide action and decision making. While narrative theory has long-held that people construct narratives to make sense of, and guide, their experience, narrative construction here entails a deliberate and strategic approach to narrative theory. Design/methodology/approach: This is part of an ethnonarrative approach that includes both a constructionist and interpretive narrative and ethnographic methodology. Findings: Narrative construction has research implications for an ethnomethodology of social construction and empirical observation of narrative enactment. There are practical implications for enabling change and building highly-coordinated organizations. Originality/value: Narrative construction offers a new qualitative methodology and extends ethnonarrative research. The research setting, a death penalty defense team, is also unique. It also moves narrative theory beyond an interpretive device to a constructionist strategy.
AB - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce narrative construction, a method by which participants produce a narrative to make sense of their organizational context, as well as strategically guide action and decision making. While narrative theory has long-held that people construct narratives to make sense of, and guide, their experience, narrative construction here entails a deliberate and strategic approach to narrative theory. Design/methodology/approach: This is part of an ethnonarrative approach that includes both a constructionist and interpretive narrative and ethnographic methodology. Findings: Narrative construction has research implications for an ethnomethodology of social construction and empirical observation of narrative enactment. There are practical implications for enabling change and building highly-coordinated organizations. Originality/value: Narrative construction offers a new qualitative methodology and extends ethnonarrative research. The research setting, a death penalty defense team, is also unique. It also moves narrative theory beyond an interpretive device to a constructionist strategy.
KW - Change
KW - Death penalty
KW - Decision making
KW - Ethnography
KW - Ethnonarrative
KW - Narratives
KW - United States of America
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960619877&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/09534811111144610
DO - 10.1108/09534811111144610
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960619877
VL - 24
SP - 442
EP - 463
JO - Journal of Organizational Change Management
JF - Journal of Organizational Change Management
SN - 0953-4814
IS - 4
ER -