Concentrating on the world of Facilities Management (FM), the metaphor of house is used alongside the concept of liminality to support further understanding of its current position as a 'secondary' service, and overall identity within organisations at a time of transition. FM is positioned as the storyteller of its own tale, creating a journey through recognised rooms of a conventional 'house' that is symbolically aligned to an associated FM function. Each room therefore contains a projection of FM stories (Gabriel 1995) that represent different facets of the discipline as it tries to live within one 'home' (Strati 2007). The study uses this unconventional approach to uncover the current identity of a discipline that strives to be strategic but is often considered 'non
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