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T1  - On the Narrative Construction of Multinational Corporations: An Antenarrative Analysis of Legitimation and Resistance in a Cross-Border Merger 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/26463 
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A1  - Vaara, Eero; Tienari, Janne 
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Y1  - 2010 
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AB  - Although extant research has highlighted the role of discourse in the cultural construction of organizations, there is a need to elucidate the use of narratives as central discursive resources in unfolding organizational change. Hence, the objective of this article is to develop a new kind of antenarrative approach for the cultural analysis of organizational change. We use merging multinational corporations (MNCs) as a case in point. Our empirical analysis focuses on a revelatory case: the finan... 
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KW  - multinational; merger; acquisition; integration; culture; identity; discourse; narrative; storytelling; antenarrative; polyphony; heteroglossia; power; ideology 
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