Final published version
Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
<mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 31/05/2006 |
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<mark>Journal</mark> | Organization Studies |
Issue number | 5 |
Volume | 27 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Pages (from-to) | 699-720 |
Publication Status | Published |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
This article summarizes, in a style that I have never before been brave enough to adopt, my work as an academic over the last 30 years. I have come closer here to practising what I have preached concerning the idea of being in the text as a self-reflexive, embodied subject rather than representing the world as a detached observer. Our self-imposed, but also heavily institutionalized, pressure to conform to certain modes of writing can produce standardized and anodyne accounts. While we often pretend that personal life is distant from our intellectual endeavours, this is rarely the case, for personal and professional lives are interdependent. I have also tried to offer more conventional accounts of those ideas and theories that have informed my work yet have also been intertwined with personally meaningful experiences. I am grateful to Organization Studies for offering me this opportunity.