The Nostalgia of Organisations and the Organisation of Nostalgia: Past and Present in the Contemporary Railway Industry

Strangleman, Tim

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“…Nostalgia, too, has begun to attract increasing attention from scholars interested in processes of organizing and organizations (e.g. Gabriel, 1993;Strangleman, 1999). Our analysis suggests that interpretive research focused on narrative identity and the notion of nostalgia may assist efforts to understand how people variously resist and accommodate the hegemonic power (Clegg, 1989;Gramsci, 1971) of multiple discursive regimes.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Kaplan, 1987;Kleiner, 1970;Werman, 1977) and sociologists with interests in trends in culture and society (Davis, 1979;Lowenthal, 1998;Shaw and Chase, 1985;Wright, 1996a). Nostalgia also figures in the work of folklorists (Wilson, 1999), scholars of organization (Gabriel, 1993) and, (though sometimes obliquely), industrial sociologists (Gouldner, 1964;Nichols and Beynon, 1977;Strangleman, 1999). Most characterizations of nostalgia suggest that it 'is a species of remembrance' (Kaplan, 1987, p. 469) associated with 'bittersweet' memories (Kleiner, 1970, p. 11;Werman, 1977, p. 388) and a 'warm feeling of yearning and longing' towards a particular time (Gabriel, 1993, p. 121).…”

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“…Both McCutcheon (1997) and Strangleman (1999) have illustrated just how prone to manipulation nostalgia can be. For example, Strangleman (1999, p. 729) has claimed that 'the past, history and identity are almost infinitely malleable' and can be re-worked in the cause of 'organizational ontological security so that resistance based on attachment to the remembered past is made problematic'.…”

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Nostalgia and the Narrativization of Identity: A Turkish Case Study

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Humphreys

2002

British J of Management

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This paper offers an interpretation of the collective identity-narrative of a Turkish faculty of vocational education. Particular attention is focused on the importance of nostalgia in acts of collective self-authorship. Nostalgia, it is argued, is key to the understanding of the dynamics of individual and organizational identity-construction in several ways: it can be a means of maintaining a collective sense of socio-historic continuity, a source of resistance to hegemonic influence and a defence against anxiety. The research contribution of this paper is threefold. First, it illustrates how groups assemble shared storylines that subjectively constitute their collective identity. Second, it analyses the different ways in which acts of collective nostalgia can inform the stories by which individuals and groups understand their present circumstances, preserve selfesteem, and react to perceived threats. Third, it theorises nostalgia as giving access to a shared heritage of apparently authentic and identity-relevant values and beliefs, as an emotional support during periods of organizational change, and as a form of uniqueness claim central to processes of individual-organization identification.

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Nostalgia and the Narrativization of Identity: A Turkish Case Study

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Humphreys

2002

British J of Management

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“…In recent years a small but growing literature has begun to emerge on the subject of nostalgia in organizations (Strangleman, 1999(Strangleman, , 2002Brown and Humphreys, 2002;Reedy, 2002;Milligan, 2003). These studies provide a more nuanced consideration of the concept and one in which those invoking nostalgic images are neither dupes nor disturbed melancholics.…”

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At the Cutting Edge? Modernization and Nostalgia in a Hospital Operating Theatre Department

2006

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Attempts by government to 'modernize' the British National Health Service involve constructing previous working practices and forms of organization as dysfunctional, whilst at the same time selectively drawing on nostalgic images of the NHS in an attempt to win public support for and employee commitment to modernization. The use of nostalgic and nostophobic discourses by government can be interpreted as an attempt not merely to adjust working patterns, but to mobilize particular individual and organizational identities and present alternative identities as illegitimate.This article draws on interviews and observations in a hospital operating theatre department to explore the ways in which hospital doctors use nostalgia to present an alternative, competing version of the world which challenge the discourse of modernization. We interpret the findings in the context of literatures concerned with nostalgia and identity. KEY WORDSidentity / medicine / nostalgia / surgery 1097 Sociology

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“…For a critique of the emphasis given in the Burra Charter to cultural significance as a material concern, see Smith (2006) and Waterton, Smith, and Campbell (2006 Strangleman (1999), and on deindustrialisation, see Strangleman and Rhodes (2014). 4.…”

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