Retreat from volume: survival strategies in a declining industry

Narrative, organizations and research

“…Narrative and its near conceptual neighbours such as story (Boje 1995), fantasy (Gabriel 1995), saga (Clark 1972) and myth (Kaye 1995) have been implicated in studies of processes of socialization (Brown 1982), learning (Tenkasi and Bolman 1993), strategic individuality (Harfield and Hamilton 1997), the exercise of power and control (Mumby 1987), sensemaking (Brown 1986), culture formation (Jordan 1996), collective centring (Boyce 1996), community mediation (Cobb 1993), IT implementation (Brown 1998), and even the policy decisions of academic journals (Boje et al 1996). This wealth of work from those who collect stories told in organizations (Martin et al 1983), tell stories about organizations (Van Maanen 1988), define organizations as storytelling systems (Boje 1991a;Currie and Brown 2003), and conceptualize organization studies as a set of storytelling practices (Clegg 1993;Czarniawska 1999;Hatch 1996) is both indicative and constitutive of narrative's impact.…”

Explaining declining industries in developing countries: The case of textiles and apparel in Ghana

“…This creates a vicious spiral whereby large firms may be able to access international economies of scale through global integration and expansion and intensifies competition further (Pettus, 2001). Many mature industries in advanced economies have struggled to compete with low-cost imports, leading to falling profitability and eventual industry decline (Harfield and Hamilton, 1997; Moldvay and Kelly, 2012).…”