This essay examines personal narratives and gender-sensitive fictional representations of the Partition between India and Pakistan to contribute to a counterhistory that takes centrally into account the ways in which nation formation was written on the bodies of women. The juxtaposition of my mother’s stories, the oral histories gathered by feminist historiographers, and critical analyses of Pa...

Knowledge is generally viewed as one of the most important organizational resources, and this view is also held in relation to municipal elderly-care organizations. However, the concept of a knowledge-based organization has seldom been addressed in elderly-care research. The aim of the present study was to analyse how political and professional groups involved in elderly care conceive of the id...

While organizational psychology attests to the multidimensional nature of team effectiveness, insight regarding the most important factors contributing to the effectiveness of sports teams, especially elite teams, is lacking. An abductive method of qualitative enquiry was adopted to capture participants' construal of team effectiveness, drawing on the extant literature in both sport and organiz...

Practice facilitation can help family physicians adopt evidence-based guidelines. However, many practices struggle to effectively implement practice changes that result in meaningful improvement. Building on our previous research, we examined the barriers to and enablers of implementation perceived by practice facilitators (PF) in helping practices to adopt the Improved Delivery of Cardiovascul...

This article examines the centrality of storytelling in achieving managerially relevant outcomes, with a focus on the in-situ performance context of corporate storytellers influencing one another. The Ricœurian concept of speech act, capturing both the intentionality of organisational discourse and the social context of its production and reception, implicitly guided our research effort. The ar...

The stories told among members of an organization are an effective instrument for knowledge socialization, the sharing of experiences through social mechanisms. However, the utility of stories for organizational learning is limited due to the difficulties in acquiring stories that are relevant to the practices of an organization, identifying the learning goals that these stories serve, and deli...

conclusions the current study showed that poorness and unreliability of “al-kafi” narratives is a vain thought. hence, it is recommended to perform clinical trial studies (at least) on accurate/authentic narratives, and also consider them as reputable and valid narratives, along with traditional medicine references. results from all narratives of the book “al-kafi” (pillars, furoo, and rouzat a...

Agarwal, R., Sambamurthy, V., and Stair, R. M. 2010. “Research Commentary—The Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Current Status and the Road Ahead,” Information Systems Research (21:4), pp. 796-809. Ajjawi, R., and Bearman, M. 2012. “Sociomateriality Matters to Family Practitioners as Supervisors,” Medical Education (46:12), pp. 1145-1147. Almklov, P. G., Østerlie, T., and Haavik, T. K. 2012...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to use narrative analysis as a method for examining the lived experience and meaning of long-term, female urinary incontinence (UI). METHOD Cognitive anthropology and critical medical anthropology provided the overall framework for this study. Theoretical saturation (Strauss, 1987) was achieved after 17 community-dwelling women with long-term (greater tha...