Eduardo Paes Barreto Davel

Reconciling contradictory paths: identity play and work in a career transition

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the interconnection of identity play and identity work during transitions. Design/methodology/approach – The authors have conducted a 46-year longitudinal and process-based study on film director Denys Arcand. The focus is on his contested career shift from being a political documentary filmmaker to a box-office success and maker of television commercials. Films and media interviews were largely and systematically analyzed. Findings – In order to explain how to maintain a sense of authenticity in transitioning between contradictory paths, the authors highlight how identity play and identity work appear in self-fuelling interaction through four processes (fragmenting, developing, mixing, and extracting). Practical implications – The authors suggest new ways to deal with career transitions as well as identity construction in constraining environments. Originality/value – The authors offer a theoretical framework that makes it possible to combine understan...

Gestão-criação: processos indissociáveis nas práticas de um teatro baiano

Management and creation have been historically, implicitly and traditionally considered antagonistic processes. Whereas management is often defined as organizing and control process, creation is commonly understood as a process involving difference and disorder in order to achieve something new. This research seeks to provide us with knowledge for reconsidering this antagonistic situation. Thus, we examine the relationship between management and creation in the context of working practices in a theatre. As we analyze systematically these practices capitalizing on self-ethnographic method, we conclude that management and creation are inseparable processes in practice. Implications occasioned by this inseparability are presented and discussed under organizational theory enlightenment.

Prática intercultural da liderança: desafios na organização Rotary

Este caso de ensino proporciona uma aprendizagem voltada para o conhecimento das dimensoes culturais relacionadas a lideranca, para o seu entendimento como expressao intercultural e para a discussao da lideranca intercultural a partir da perspectiva da pratica. O caso consiste na historia de descobertas de Joao, rotariano – isto e, associado da organizacao Rotary – que, ao participar de um projeto internacional pela primeira vez, acompanha o trabalho dos lideres, que inclui a formacao de parceria, a interacao com os rotarianos envolvidos e as comunidades nas quais o projeto e realizado, e a solucao de problemas. Com base na experiencia vivida por Joao, e possivel conhecer as praticas de lideranca no contexto considerado, que estao associadas a presente interacao entre culturas. Dessa forma, o caso possibilita que se analise e compreenda de que forma seguidores de diferentes culturas se unem aos lideres, o modo pelo qual lideres conduzem seguidores de diferentes culturas para a realizacao de objetivos e como sao conciliadas as diferencas entre lideres e seguidores de diferentes culturas durante o seu convivio, desafios ligados ao contexto em questao.

Desafios da corporalidade na pesquisa acadêmica

The main goal of this research is to explore, discuss and map the challenges of embodiment to research methodology. Consequently, the paper follows the qualitative tradition, focusing on the activities of interpretation, exploration and description. Two sources of information are highlighted: documents (embodiment researches published as thesis, dissertation, article, book and book chapters) and interviews with scholars specialized in embodiment. The result of this research is materialized in the formulation, description and discussion of nine challenges, issued from embodiment in the context of the research methodology. These challenges are organized from three key moments in the methodological process: (a) research planning, (b) interaction with empirical material and (c) analysis of empirical material. Furthermore, ethnography appears to be the methodological approach used by scholars.

Management-creation: inseparable processes in a theater practices

Management and creation have been historically, implicitly and traditionally considered antagonistic processes. Whereas management is often defined as organizing and control process, creation is commonly understood as a process involving difference and disorder in order to achieve something new. This research seeks to provide us with knowledge for reconsidering this antagonistic situation. Thus, we examine the relationship between management and creation in the context of working practices in a theatre. As we analyze systematically these practices capitalizing on self-ethnographic method, we conclude that management and creation are inseparable processes in practice. Implications occasioned by this inseparability are presented and discussed under organizational theory enlightenment.

Gestión-creación: procesos indisociables en las prácticas de un teatro de Bahía

Management and creation have been historically, implicitly and traditionally considered antagonistic processes. Whereas management is often defined as organizing and control process, creation is commonly understood as a process involving difference and disorder in order to achieve something new. This research seeks to provide us with knowledge for reconsidering this antagonistic situation. Thus, we examine the relationship between management and creation in the context of working practices in a theatre. As we analyze systematically these practices capitalizing on self-ethnographic method, we conclude that management and creation are inseparable processes in practice. Implications occasioned by this inseparability are presented and discussed under organizational theory enlightenment.