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100	1		_aLLEWELLYN, Nick _96196
245	1	0	_aThe role of storytelling and narrative in a modernisation initiative
260			_c2001
520	3		_aThis article addresses the significance of storytelling and narrative in a modernisation initiative. It examines how storytelling enabled a certain "thrust" to be maintained in the project work. Shared stories of bureaucratic failing are analysed. These served a number of functions, one of which was to enabled a clear sense of progress or modernisation to e established in the present. To maintain this sense of progress and modernisation individuals has to smooth over potential discontinuities, such as the re-emergence of cross-departmental conflict, in stories that stressed growth and learning. The article examines these narrative accomplishments and shows how they played an active role in susustaining the authority`s self-image as a "modernising council". By examining the inter-relationship between the political project of modernisation and the individual project of constructing narrative accounts of organisational progress, the article also reveals subtle mechanisms of control operating between central and local government
773	0	8	_tLocal Government Studies _g27, 4, p. 35-58 _d, 2001 _w
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998			_a20021206 _bCassio _cCassio
998			_a20060523 _b1022^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c9182 _d9182
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