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

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9789027296610

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Author:

Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara.

Publication Information:

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 275 pages).

Series:

Advances in organization studies ; vol. 11

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.

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Subject Term:

Communication in management.

Communication in organizations.

Business communication.

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Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara.

Gagliardi, Pasquale, 1936-

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Publication Date:

2003

Publication Information:

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

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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.

Barbara Czarniawska; Pasquale GagliardiAnne-Marie SøderbergDaniel RobichaudNanette Monin; John MoninHeather HöpflValérie-Inès Ville; Eléonore MounoudHervé CorvellecPaul M. Hirsch; Hayagreeva RaoGerardo PatriottaDavid MetzBrian P. BloomfieldSudi SharifiRobert Grafton Small

1 Introduction	p. vii
2 Part 1
3 Sensegiving and sensemaking in an integration process	p. 3
4 Narrative institutions we organize by	p. 37
5 Part 2
6 Re-navigating management theory	p. 57
7 The\body of the text and the ordinary narratives of organisation	p. 75
8 Part 3
9 How can strategy be a practice?	p. 95
10 Narratives of organizational performance	p. 115
11 Part 4
12 The\Schweik Syndrome	p. 137
13 Detective stories and the narrative structure of organizing	p. 149
14 Part 5
15 From naked emperor to count zero	p. 173
16 Narrating the future of intelligent machines	p. 193
17 Part 6
18 Ticking time and side cupboard ...	p. 215
19 Fluid tales	p. 237
20 About the authors and the editors	p. 247
21 References	p. 251
22 Name index	p. 267
23 Subject index	p. 273

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