Making sense of renouncing: A typology of types, motives, and approaches to renouncing at work
本研究通过叙事意义建构视角，基于30名法国商学院学者的访谈，归纳出工作中放弃（放弃工作相关抱负）的六种体验类型，构建了基于放弃类型（为成功而放弃 vs. 放弃成功本身）和放弃方式（被迫、接受或选择）的矩阵模型。
Abstract In this paper, we provide an exploratory account of the experience of renouncing at work—giving up a work‐related aspiration. Despite the importance of the phenomenon, the conceptualization of renouncing has been overlooked by the literature. Taking a narrative sensemaking approach to renouncing, we document variance in individual experiences to renouncing, that is, how they subjectively understand what, why, and how they renounce at work. Through a qualitative approach, we investigate the case of 30 academics working in three French business schools characterized by an increasingly influential managerialist “publish or perish” regime, a context conducive to renouncing. Based on our findings identifying various experiences of renouncing, we inductively build a matrix and a model connecting six experiences of renouncing based on the type of renouncing (renouncing in order to succeed vs. renouncing success itself) and how people approach renouncing (suffered, accepted, or chosen renouncing).