Sergeeva, N; Winch, G; (2018) Creating the context of project innovation: Narrative interactions. In: Proceedings of the European Group for Organizational Studies, 34th EGOS Colloquium 2018. European Group for Organizational Studies: Tallinn, Estonia. (In press).

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This paper follows the ‘narrative turn’ in organisation studies (Fenton & Langley, 2011; Rhodes & Brown, 2005) and extends it to project management studies. We will do this by exploring interactions between the narratives of innovation as promoted by government and those mobilised in response by senior managers within project-based firms. The paper focuses on understanding how the meaning of innovation is socially constructed through the use of narratives (Bartel & Garud, 2009). Narratives of innovation are consistently promoted by policy makers to meet the targets set by the government. Yet, little is known how firm-level narratives of innovation interact with these government-level narratives. For example, the UK government has advocated Building Information Modelling (BIM) use, but there is evidence of a mismatch between the government narrative and how project-based firms in the construction sector practice BIM (Davies & Harty, 2013).

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