Sensegiving and sensemaking in integration processes

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dc.contributor.author	Søderberg, Anne-Marie	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-02-04T10:25:38Z
dc.date.available	2009-02-04T10:25:38Z
dc.date.issued	2003-11-18T00:00:00Z	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6962
dc.description.abstract	Most studies of mergers and acquisitions have a managerial tilt and are founded on short visits to the companies investigated. This essay is based on a longitudinal study of a company that experiences a series of international acquisitions, giving voice to a wide range of organizational actors at different hierarchical levels, interviewed at different points of time over a period of six years. The collected narrative interviews are viewed as retrospective interpretations of change processes in the acquired company, made by organizational actors as parts of the plots they are continually constructing and revising to make sense of the course of organizational actions and events. Greimas’ actantial model is used to systematize the different plots that can be seen as results of both individual and collective processes of selection, hierarchization and sequencing of organizational actions and events. It is argued that a narrative approach is well suited to clarify changing patterns of identification and justification and to display different modes of storytelling. The narratological analyses moreover illustrate that even central actors within an acquired company often have such different work-views and world-views that it may be problematic or even counterproductive if upper-level management introduces corporate storytelling through conscious efforts without any negotiation of the different versions of stories told by the employees.	en_US
dc.format.extent	41 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Paper;2003-67	en_US
dc.subject.other	corporate sensemaking	en_US
dc.subject.other	internationale fusioner	en_US
dc.subject.other	internationale virksomhedsovertagelser	en_US
dc.subject.other	telekommunikationsbranche	en_US
dc.subject.other	danmark	en_US
dc.subject.other	corporate storytelling	en_US
dc.title	Sensegiving and sensemaking in integration processes	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt03nov18 inrumo	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Interkulturel Kommunikation og Ledelse	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	IKL	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Intercultural Communication and Management	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	ICM
dc.idnumber	x656315902	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2003	en_US
dc.title.subtitle	a narrative approach to the study of international acquisitions	en_US