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Title: | Change as shifting identities: a dialogic perspective | Contributor(s): | Jabri, M (author) | Publication Date: | 2004 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1108/09534810410564550 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/70 | Abstract: | Narrative and dialogic modes of theorizing identity are both premised on textuality. However, theories of narrative identity tend towards unity and coherence (in accordance with the notion of narrative as constant and pre-given), whereas the dialogic mode is more aligned with the postmodern novelistic literature (thus drawing heavily on dispersion, voice, disorder, and otherness). In accordance with the approach of Mikhail Bakhtin, the present study attempts to remedy the shortcomings of narrative identity by proposing change as involving shifting identities that are achieved through the transposition of utterances. Only through the recognition of the undecidable, unfinalizable nature of utterance can change be conceived as being shaped and reshaped through shifting identities. Such an approach reveals the interlocking relation between change and the varied texts people inhabit as they contemplate change. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal of Organizational Change Management, 17(6), p. 566-577 | Publisher: | Emerald Publishing Limited | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1758-7816 0953-4814 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 150312 Organisational Planning and Management | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article UNE Business School |
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