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The ties that double-bind us: career, emotion and narrative thinking in difficult working relationships

Lookup NU author(s): Dr John Blenkinsopp

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Abstract

This article examines through an autoethnographic account how career aspirations and constraints may lead individuals to endure emotionally aversive situations. It presents evidence that individuals in such situations engage in emotion-focused coping through narrative, illustrated by the author's autoethnographic narrative of a difficult working relationship which developed into a double bind situation. The paper suggests that narrative coping in response to a double bind can actually serve to reify and prolong such situations. The paper concludes that autoethnographic research does not lend itself to simple organisational solutions. Possible avenues for further research are outlined and discussed.

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Author(s): Blenkinsopp J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Culture and Organization

Year: 2007

Volume: 13

Issue: 3

Pages: 251-266

ISSN (print): 1475-9551

ISSN (electronic): 1477-2760

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14759550701486639

DOI: 10.1080/14759550701486639

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