from Part IV - Methodological Resources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 March 2025
Linda Rouleau suggests that biographical research provides a set of narrative methods of inquiry for carrying out in-depth studies of strategizing practices. Amongst the diverse forms that biographical methods can take, she suggests that biographical interviews or narratives of practices, that is, focusing on work experience and professional trajectories, provide privileged access to the subjective accounts of what managers and others ‘do’. Rouleau provides an overview of how biographical methods have been used in strategy as practice research in an attempt at gaining an in-depth look into the world of practitioners who are strategizing. She also puts forth illustrative data extracted from a previous study based on narratives of practices, which examined how middle managers deal with the restructuring of their organization. Finally, she explains how biographical methods, in general, and biographical interviews or narratives of practices, in particular, can be used to gain access to explicit and tacit knowledge, and how the depth of the relationship between narrator and researcher is central to a thorough understanding of strategizing practices.
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