@inbook{836d698bfb8d44e188888ca62eb4502f,
title = "From cruise director to rabbi: Authoring the agentic self through conventions of narrative necessity",
abstract = "The concept of (self-)identity has become increasingly central to institutional theory{\textquoteright}s microfoundations, yet remains relatively underdeveloped. In this chapter, the authors use an autobiographical interview with a gay Protestant minister in the US to explore the role of narrative conventions in the construction of self-identity. The analysis of this chapter offers the basis for a new understanding of the relation between institutions, self-identity, and agency: how we agentically engage institutions depends not only on who we narrate ourselves to be, but also on how we narrate ourselves into being. This suggests that narration as a specific modality of micro-institutional processes has important performative effects.",
keywords = "Institutional theory, self-identity, agency, narrative, sensemaking, GLBT",
author = "Jaco Lok and Creed, {W. E. Douglas} and Rich Dejordy",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065B036",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781787691285",
volume = "65B",
series = "Research in the Sociology of Organizations",
publisher = "Emerald Publishing",
pages = "63--83",
editor = "Patrick Haack and Jost Sieweke and Lauri Wessel",
booktitle = "Microfoundations of institutions",
}