Remembering and telling the past: a qualitative study of organizational change

Titolo Rivista EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES
Autori/Curatori Michela Cozza
Anno di pubblicazione 2014 Fascicolo 2013/2 Lingua Inglese
Numero pagine 18 P. 123-140 Dimensione file 574 KB
DOI 10.3280/ERP2013-002008
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In this paper I will discuss some results of a research project aimed at studying the transformation of an important Research Centre of North Italy. Organizational actors have been involved as storytellers of this organizational change. They have reconstructed the trajectories of change, telling about the influence of change on their organizational relations and working experience. Using texts collected in the form of weekly diaries, I will discuss how the organizational remembering has taken place as practical accomplishment, and how it has enabled a reflexive process.

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Michela Cozza, Remembering and telling the past: a qualitative study of organizational change in "EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES" 2/2013, pp 123-140, DOI: 10.3280/ERP2013-002008