Article published in:
Narratives as Social Practice in Organisational ContextsEdited by Dorien Van De Mieroop, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr
[Narrative Inquiry 32:1] 2022
► pp. 130–147
‘I have her image of bringing me cherries as an offer’
Exploring belonging and trust in cross-border business collaboration through storytelling
Christina Efthymiadou | University of the West of England
Jo Angouri | University of Warwick
This paper explores the role of narratives as resources for enacting group membership and community building in the case of one company, a Greek-Turkish partnership, SforSteel. We pay special attention to the function of iterative stories and specifically one that indexes the origin of the partnership. The analysis shows that the story, and its episodes, act as significant interactional resources for partners to claim a shared regional identity, that of people coming from the area of Trabzon in the Black Sea region. By negotiating a common origin, the partners simultaneously strengthen their long-term relationship and continuously reconnect the past to the present. The strong long-term relationship has a symbolic status and constitutes a condition for being accepted in this community. Through the analysis of this story our discussion addresses the importance of iterativity and the foundational relationship between community and trust.
Keywords: narratives as resources, iterativity, trustworthiness, trust, historicity, shared group membership, interactional histories
Article outline
- Introduction
- Iterativity in storytelling practices
- Trust and trustworthiness
- Data and methods
- Analysis and discussion
- Conclusion
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Published online: 04 March 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.20049.eft
https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.20049.eft
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