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, based on a narrative drawn from a qualitative research. Design/methodology/approach Throughout the study, qualitative …. Research limitations/implications While the single narrative method with an omniscient narrator allows for the …
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Purpose In previous research on rhetoric and narrative in management research, cultural narratives have been studied as …
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the narrative nature of organizational spaces and how these narratives … influence human action. The study introduces a notion of “narrating space” that emphasizes a narrative construction of space … are dynamic and changing. The study adds to a better awareness of space as a sensuous narrative. Beyond being an isolated …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to distinguish experiences from practices and relate this distinction to current developments in value research within service‐dominant (S‐D) logic and the broader service domain. Design/methodology/approach – The paper provides a conceptual...
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Purpose – The Guest Editors’ intent with this special issue is to tell tales of the field and beyond, but all with the serious end of rendering visible the largely invisible. This paper aims to introduce the articles forming the special issue, as well as reviewing extant work that...
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system, in alphabetic written language, so strongly marked by its redundancy? Second, why has information theory been so … located as a rare but significant transitional form, mediating between heroic emblems and written language. For alphabetic … written language, a link to the sounds of oral utterance replaces the connection to the mental states of the human information …
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Purpose – The paper aims to explain the character and causes of obsolescence in assigned subject descriptors. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of a conceptual analysis with examples and reference to existing literature. Findings – Subject description comes in two...
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language policies as a strategy for embracing diversity in their workforce. Design/methodology/approach – An exploratory study … strategy, in particular the terminology used to refer to non‐whites. Findings – This research found that the language used in … attention to the language used in their corporate communications to ensure that the messages and signals they send consistently …
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Purpose This paper reviews research developments in semiosis (sign activity) as theorized by Peirce, Eco and Sebeok, focusing specifically on the current study of “semiotic threshold zones,” which range from the origins of life through various nonhuman life forms to artificial life forms,...
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Purpose – This paper aims to describe how organization’s identity changes in the course of time. Focus is on project-based companies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper first highlights the concept of process thinking. Then follow descriptions of notions of identity and identity...
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