Narratives we organise by / edited by Barbara Czarniawska, Pasquale Gagliardi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara.

Gagliardi, Pasquale, 1936-

Series:

Advances in organization studies ; 11.

Advances in organization studies ; vol. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in management.

Communication in organizations.

Business communication.

Physical Description:

ix, 275 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Narratives we organize by

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a collection of texts that explore the analogy between organizing and narrating, between action and text. The raw material of everyday organizational life consists of disconnected fragments, physical and verbal actions that do not make sense when reported with simple chronology. Narrating is organizing this raw and fragmented material with the help of such devices as plot and characters. Simultaneously, organizing makes narration possible, because it orders people, things and events in time and place. The collection, written by organization researchers from many different countries, explores this analogy in both directions, reporting studies that show how narratives are made in situ, and applying narrative analysis (structuralist and poststructuralist) to stories already in existence.Barbara Czarniawska is Skandia Professor of Management Studies at GRI, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, Sweden.Pasquale Gagliardi is Professor of Sociology of Organization at the Catholic University of Milan, and Managing Director of ISTUD- Istituto Studi Direzionali, Milan-Stresa, Italy.

Contents:

Narratives We Organize By

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Contents

Introduction

Part 1 Structuralist approaches to narrative analysis

Sensegiving and sensemaking in an integration process

Narrative institutions we organize by

Part 2 Poststructuralist approaches to narrative

Re-navigating management theory

The body of the text and the ordinary narratives of organisation

Part 3 Genre analysis

How can strategy be a practice?

Narratives of organizational performance

Part 4 Stories help to understand

The Schweik Syndrome

Detective stories and the narrative structure of organizing

Part 5 Getting help from the stories of the future

From naked emperor to count zero

Narrating the future of intelligent machines

Part 6 Narrating ourselves

Ticking times and side cupboards …

Fluid tales

About the authors and the editors

References

Name index

Subject index

The serie Advances in Organization Studies.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612161322

9781282161320

1282161326

9789027296610

9027296618

OCLC:

55641442