13NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
Shankar Sankaran
Introduction – Why narrative inquiry?
Narratives and stories are becoming important for gathering data in organisational research due to what Alvesson and Kärreman (2000) call the ‘linguistic turn’ in inquiries into organisational practices. Czarniawska adds that narratives help us to ‘enter into a dialogical relationship with organisational practice’ (1997, p. 17). Rhodes and Brown (2005) further extend the need for narratives to get insights into an organisational experience to examine the ‘emotional and symbolic lives within organisations’ (p. 169). Gabriel (2004) also emphasises this symbolic aspect and states that narratives challenge the ...
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