Working the past
Subtitle: narrative and institutional memory
By: Charlotte Linde.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780195140293; 9780195140286
Subjects: Communication in organizations -- Case studies; Corporate culture -- Case studies; Corporate image -- Case studies; Knowledge management -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : how institutions remember; title: Data for the study : the MidWest Insurance Company; title: Occasions for institutional remembering; title: Retold tales : repeated narratives as a resource for institutional remembering; title: Multiple versions of MidWest's history; title: Three versions of one story : a comparison; title: Paradigmatic narratives : exemplary narratives of everyman; title: Narrative and intertextuality : telling one's own story within a textual community; title: Noisy silences : stories not told; title: Working the past : identity and memory.