Working the past narrative and institutional memory /

• Main Author: Linde, C.
• Corporate Author: Oxford University Press.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Communication in organizations > Case studies.; Corporate culture > Case studies.; Corporate image > Case studies.; Knowledge management > Case studies.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Information Management.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Knowledge Capital.; Electronic books.
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'Working the Past' shows how stories that might otherwise be seen as part of mundane daily life are in fact essential to the formation and maintenance of individual and group identity. Her original research will appeal to those interested in narrative studies, linguistics, anthropology, so...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : how institutions remember
• Data for the study : the MidWest Insurance Company
• Occasions for institutional remembering
• Retold tales : repeated narratives as a resource for institutional remembering
• Multiple versions of MidWest's history
• Three versions of one story : a comparison
• Paradigmatic narratives : exemplary narratives of everyman
• Narrative and intertextuality : telling one's own story within a textual community
• Noisy silences : stories not told
• Working the past : identity and memory.