eprintid: 10103728 rev_number: 22 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/10/37/28 datestamp: 2020-07-06 15:04:45 lastmod: 2021-02-17 16:08:33 status_changed: 2020-07-06 15:04:45 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Sergeeva, N creators_name: Green, SD title: Sustainability managers, facilitators and champions and a collective identity of becoming more sustainable in response to sustainability goals ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F37 keywords: discourse, grand narrative, narrative identity, identities, sustainability note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. abstract: Sustainability discourse pervadessocial, economic and politicalsystem. There has been a boom of recent research into sustainability, covering different research questions and themes. Yet there still remains little empirical research which explores the way sustainability is promoted in the policy discourse and how it is interpreted in practice by individuals and firms. We adopt narrative identity work to examine the ways in which sustainability managers in the UK construction sector construct different self-identities in response to the grand narrative of sustainability promoted at the sector. Based on conducted workshop with 15 participants and subsequent narrative interviews, we demonstrate how these different self-identities and a collective identity arise and inform responses to the grand narrative of sustainability. We highlight narrative identity work as central to the enactments of responses to the sustainability discourse date: 2020 date_type: published publisher: European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) official_url: https://www.egosnet.org/2020/hamburg/Virtual%20Colloquium_Joining%20Instructions oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1795038 lyricists_name: Sergeeva, Natalya lyricists_id: NSERG57 actors_name: Sergeeva, Natalya actors_id: NSERG57 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public series: EGOS Colloquium volume: 36 place_of_pub: Hamburg, Germany event_title: 36th EGOS Colloquium event_location: Hamburg, Germany event_dates: 2nd-4th July 2020 institution: European Group of Organisation Studies book_title: Proceedings of the 36th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium citation: Sergeeva, N; Green, SD; (2020) Sustainability managers, facilitators and champions and a collective identity of becoming more sustainable in response to sustainability goals. In: Proceedings of the 36th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium. European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS): Hamburg, Germany. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10103728/3/Sergeeva_Sustainability%20managers%2C%20facilitators%20and%20champions%20and%20a%20collective%20identity%20of%20becoming%20more%20sustainable%20in%20response%20to%20sustainability%20goals_AAM.pdf