This paper analyzes how participants' preferred conceptions of their selves are disciplined by the organizationally-based discursive and material resources on which they draw. Our paper is principally an in-depth case study of the subjectivities of men who were serving, or who had served, in an...

This paper analyzes how the preferred self-conceptions of men in an elite military unit - the British Parachute Regiment - were disciplined by the organizationally-based discursive resources on which they drew. The research contribution this paper makes is twofold. First, we argue that desired...

Examines some of the implementation issues accompanying the introduction of a major change programme in the UK National Health Service. The data for the case were collected from more than 200 semi‐structured interviews in one NHS region. The change programme itself, called the Resource...