Sustainability Work With Tensions in Textile Companies: The Co-Construction of Organisational Narratives and Collective Agency
通过对纺织企业员工访谈的叙事分析，揭示了可持续性工作中三种组织叙事（声望、无力感、理想主义）如何共同建构并影响行动，适合关注组织可持续性实践与叙事理论的学者。
Sustainability work requires continuous reflection in a complex system of interconnected and competing demands. To shed light on the complexity and tensions of sustainability work in a controversial field, such as the textile industry, a narrative approach to sustainability work is utilised. The research data consist of individual interviews (21 participants) and four focus-group interviews (16 participants). The use of a narrative analysis reveals three prevailing organisational narratives that illustrate how sustainability work is constantly co-constructed through different organisational representatives and how they act in organisations: (1) the consolidating narrative of prestige, (2) the surrendering narrative of powerlessness and (3) the obscuring narrative of idealism. The study contributes to the extant literature by offering an understanding of sustainability work as consisting polyphonically and as constantly negotiated and evolving, and shows how narrative structures are constitutive of action in this field. It foregrounds the constitutive role of narrative structures, not merely as representational devices but as dynamic spaces through which organisational actors can generate and reduce enduring ambiguities and contradictions.