Table of contents - Special Issue: Storytelling
Guest Editors: Hugo Letiche, Robert v Boeschoten, Sanjev Dugal
Coaching can be storyselling: creating change through crises of confidence
Cheryl A. Lapp, Adrian N. CarrTo show the reader that storytelling can be seen as a form of seduction based on emotional response and thereby preventing a change process within the organisation.
Beyond the hegemonic narrative – a study of managers
David VickersThe aim is to analyse managerial behaviour using narrative analysis to identify stories that are often ignored, silenced or missed by the hegemonic managerialist narrative.
Storytellers and their discursive strategies in a post‐acquisition process
Ruth Steuer, Thomaz WoodThe aim is to discuss how storytelling can be used in different ways to enlighten change processes occurring within and after a takeover situation.
I am not your hero: change management and culture shocks in a public sector corporation
Yannick Fronda, Jean‐Luc MoriceauA description of the managerial impact on change processes during a takeover with middle management in the telecom industry.
Living among stories: everyday life at a South Western bank
Anna Linda Musacchio AdorisioThis paper aims to problematize the idea that organizations can be understood as written text. Most of the work done in narrative analysis for organizational studies (OS) relies…
Leading adaptive organizational change: self‐reflexivity and self‐transformation
Matthew EriksenThe aim of this paper is to give an account of a self‐evaluation process in a change programme within the US Coast Guard.
Workplace learning: narrative and professionalization
Hugo Letiche, Robert v Boeschoten, Frank de JongTo show how the stories told by people in organisations need to be reckoned with in order to give change a chance.
ISSN:
0953-4814Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof Slawomir Magala