company for $1 billion. Findings – Strategy can be diverted or altered by managers lower down the organization in a counter … strategy process. This is consistent with Dalton where managers lower down the organization adapt and change strategy to make … strategies within an organization in practice. This enables organizations to reconsider how they engage managers beyond the …

Purpose – The primary purpose of this paper is to critically explore managers' experience of work identity in the …

. Design/methodology/approach – The topic was investigated within a Finnish context by analyzing the narratives of 29 female … managers. A common feature among the women was their managerial position and extensive work experience. All the women had or … about work‐family issues – by showing the many different meanings that women managers attach to one of the family members.  …

managers. It applies a dialogical approach to consider how they position themselves interactionally in the narratives in such a … alternative identities negatively. The use of the written narratives of managers and the application of a dialogical approach is … literary critic and philosopher Bakhtin, in understanding the portrayal of managerial identity in management narratives. In …