If a tree falls in the forest... reproducing organization through text: a hermeneutic analysis of curricula vitae and the Atlantic Schools of Business conference

Abstract

This study analyzed the curricula vitae of scholars who presented papers at the Atlantic Schools of Business conference and whose papers appeared in the conference proceedings. The curriculum vitae can be viewed as a personal story (Miller & Morgan 1993) and is also an academic life history of the scholar’s career. The document serves many purposes (Dietz & Bozeman 2005; Metcalfe 1992), however, the goal of this research is to illustrate the relationship between this personal device and the conference as a socially reproduced organization. The research examines the CV as a potentially powerful tool for recreating the conference and the reproductive power of the public presentation of CVs on the World Wide Web.