Contesting histories: Unity and division in a building society
Journal of Organizational Change Management
ISSN: 0953-4814
Article publication date: 1 December 2002
Abstract
This paper reports a study of managers in a small English building society. Its intent is to stress the importance of members’ contested understandings of the history of their institution. Management in this organisation were both a unitary and a divided group – collective in some respects but divided in others. This is demonstrated with particular reference to managers’ different accounts of the organisation’s past and the ways in which these were deployed as relevant resources for avoiding extinction in the future.
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Citation
Parker, M. (2002), "Contesting histories: Unity and division in a building society", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 15 No. 6, pp. 589-605. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810210449550
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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