Storying selves and others at work

Abstract This paper engages with the relationship between story ownership – so who owns a story, tellership has right to tell it, and functions of workplace narratives as well broader social practices at work. Drawing upon discourse narrative analyses, investigates specifically how negotiation meaning visible in often incomplete fragmented but naturally-occurring points discursive struggle over construction self within specific parameters notion professionalism. The identifies facets discusses each one can be affected by such regulatory forces