Christina Efthymiadou
'I have her image of bringing me cherries as an offer' : Exploring belonging and trust in cross-border business collaboration through storytelling
Efthymiadou, Christina; Angouri, Jo
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Jo Angouri
Abstract
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.
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Efthymiadou, C., & Angouri, J. (2022). 'I have her image of bringing me cherries as an offer' : Exploring belonging and trust in cross-border business collaboration through storytelling. Narrative Inquiry, 32(1), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.20049.eft
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 30, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 4, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2022-01 |
Deposit Date | May 25, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | May 26, 2021 |
Journal | Narrative Inquiry |
Print ISSN | 1387-6740 |
Electronic ISSN | 1569-9935 |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 32 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 130-147 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.20049.eft |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6037293 |
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