Sustaining innovation is a vital yet difficult task. Innovation requires the coordinated efforts of many actors to facilitate (1) the recombination of ideas to generate novelty, (2) real-time problem solving, and (3) linkages between present innovation efforts with past experiences and future aspirations. We propose that innovation narratives are cultural mechanisms that address these coordinat...

Throughout the latter half of the past century cinema has played a significant role in the shaping of the core narratives of Australia. Films express and implicitly shape national images and symbolic representations of cultural fictions in which ideas about Indigenous identity have been embedded. In this paper, exclusionary practices in Australian narratives are analysed through examples of fil...

Developing a coherent computational model for narratives across multiple cultures raises the question of the components and structure of a framework within which African narratives can be conceptualised and formalised. It is well known that narratives are influenced by cultural, linguistic, and cognitive factors. We identify and define entities, elements, and relations necessary for the adequat...

This paper examines narratives relating to the development of National Geo Information Infrastructures (NGII) in ethnographic research on a Dutch NGII project which was monitored throughout its course. We used an approach which focuses on narratives concerning the environment, groups and practice to elicit sense-making processes. We assert that narratives are relatively fixed and that they only...

one of the exegetical methods coming into focus in the contemporary era due to the efforts of allameh tabatabai and then by ayatollah javadi-amoli is the quran-to-quran interpretive method. various arguments have been proposed for the validity of this method. one of these is that the traditional islamic narratives consider the quran as the criterion for assessing the validity of narrative. by t...

This investigation explored the nature of transference of interpersonal patterns in patients' psychotherapy narratives. The relation between interpersonal patterns with significant others in a patient's life and the pattern with the therapist early in treatment was examined. Cluster analysis was used to categorize similar relationships for each of 35 patients. Many patients revealed multiple in...

Physicians and nurses express their judgments and observations towards a patient’s health status in clinical narratives. Thus, their judgments are explicitly or implicitly included in patient records. To get impressions on the current health situation of a patient or on changes in the status, analysis and retrieval of this subjective content is crucial. In this paper, we approach this question ...

The study of narratives is increasingly noted for its value in the professional and personal development of doctors. We present the narratives of one of the author's experiences in the care of dying patients over a span of three decades. From the narratives, we identified three paradigms with which doctors respond to and care for dying patients and their families: 'No death', where there is a g...

This study examined qualitative data from ten individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) who felt at ease with their current situations. An analysis based on the grounded theory method revealed that one's experience of coping or adjustment to the disability was represented as narratives about him or herself. Each one with TBI reconstructed certain self-narratives in coping with their chang...

Sociocultural perspectives of literacy emphasize the role of the larger environment in the shaping of literacy practices. As a result, some researchers theorize students don’t fail in school, but that schools fail students by denying them opportunities to practice literacy in personally meaningful ways. Evidence of such is manifest in the narrative identities of struggling adolescent readers. I...