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Narrative Discourse and Management Action
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The authors found that narrative discourse helped resolve conflict, influence corporate decisions, and unify the group by collectively constructing stochastic narratives, which helped resolve conflicts, influence decisions and resolve conflicts.Abstract:
An analysis of the language used by a management team suggests that narrative discourse helped resolve conflict, influence corporate decisions, and unify the group. By collectively constructing sto...read more
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Micro‐Practices of Strategic Sensemaking and Sensegiving: How Middle Managers Interpret and Sell Change Every Day*
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the workings of ongoing primary sensemaking and sensegiving micro-practices by which middle managers interpret and sell strategic change at the organizational interface.
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The content of the Form: narrative discourse and historical representation
TL;DR: Hayden White as mentioned in this paper put together essays on Droysen, Foucault, Jameson and Ricoeur to give an encompassing account of a problematic issue that has been one of the major concerns of historical studies as well as of many other areas of the human sciences: that of the importance of narrative representation in the description or explanation of the "object" of study of human sciences.
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A Narrative Approach to Collective Identities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define collective identities as the totality of such narratives and draw attention to their complex, and often fragmented and heterogeneous nature, and propose a conceptual model for theorizing and researching collective identities.
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Strategy as Practice and the Narrative Turn
Christopher Fenton,Ann Langley +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argues that organizational communication research, and in particular a perspective that focuses on narrative, can contribute in important ways to understand the practices of strategy. And they explore applications of narrative approaches to strategy praxis, practices, practitioners and text, review two concepts that might serve to integrate micro and macro levels of analysis.
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Theory Building A Review and Integration
Dean A. Shepherd,Roy Suddaby +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of the literature on theory building in management around the five key elements of a good story is presented, namely conflict, character, setting, sequence, and plot and arc.
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Narrative knowing and the human sciences
TL;DR: JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive as discussed by the authors.
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Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life
TL;DR: For junior and senior managers alike, Deal and Kennedy offer explicit guidelines for diagnosing the state of one's own corporate culture and for using the power of culture to wield significant influence on how business gets done as discussed by the authors.
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Time and narrative
TL;DR: In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature as mentioned in this paper, and this final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeure's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.