Project narratives: directions for research

Natalya Sergeeva; Johan Ninan

doi:10.4337/9781800880283.00038

Project narratives: directions for research

Natalya Sergeeva^*, Johan Ninan

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Integral Design & Management

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Projects are peopled at all levels, and people make sense of their lives via narrative thought as the temporal and dramatic dimension of human existence is emphasized in them. Narratives organize people’s lived experiences and create order out of random incidents and events. Such an order can help them understand the passage of events and even guide action. Narratives such as the need for the project, sustainability of the project, innovation in the project can be crafted and maintained in different ways. In this chapter we discuss how different organizational theories such as sensemaking, social identity theory, and organizational power can help understand the narrative practices in project settings. We review studies in project settings that apply narratives to shape the project vision, identity, and image to improve the project management practice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing
Editors	Graham Winch, Maude Brunet, Dongping Cao
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing
Chapter	27
Pages	274-282
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-80088-028-3
ISBN (Print)	978-1-80088-027-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880283.00038
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Name	Research Handbooks in Business and Management series
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing

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Keywords

Project Narratives
Vision, Identity
Image
Crafting narratives

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Research Handbook on Complex Project Organizing. ed. / Graham Winch; Maude Brunet; Dongping Cao. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. p. 274-282 (Research Handbooks in Business and Management series).

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