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ACADEMIC
After managerialism
This paper is occasioned by the Storymaker project, an initiative begun in 1998 to help professionals in organizations to develop their practice by recording and exchanging narratives of work experience. The paper attempts to situate the practice and... Read More
ACADEMIC
Narrative processes in organizational discourse
This article advances the idea of 'narrative processes' in the metaphor of organizational discourse as a complex system. There are three narrative processes, or ways in which people in organizations story events, namely: story coercion as the conscio... Read More
ACADEMIC
Telling it like you think it might be
Terms like 'narrative' and 'story' are pretty confusing for a person who grew up in linguistic anthropology, where both have been used in a variety of ways for a century or so. The author tries to clarify the terms with the following steps. First, in... Read More
ACADEMIC
The use of narrative to understand and respond to complexity
This article compares two prominent managerial models - those of Snowden and Weick - that use narrative as a sensemaking response to complexity. After presenting an overview to their approach to narrative and complexity, we then analyze their stylist... Read More
with THEIRRY BOUDÈS
ACADEMIC
Wanted for breaking and entering organizational systems in complexity
In this paper we choose to enact this short story of Anais Nin. We have chosen to break out of the use of conventional narrative by using psy chodynamic theory to break into the experi ences that facilitate and block the emergence of participation in... Read More
with CHERYL A. LAPP
ACADEMIC
Order (for free) in the court
The practice of law is nothing less than the receiving and re-telling of stories in anticipation of others? undermining those stories in their own re-tellings of counter-stories. The ordered regime we perceive as law is the result of constraints on s... Read More
ACADEMIC
Complexity and catastrophe
The relationship between tightly coupled systems, complexity and the potential for disaster is well established. Research into complex systems has led to a greater appreciation of their instability. However, in the main, studies have confined themsel... Read More
with SUMOHON MATILAL
ACADEMIC
Storytelling and globalization
Appardurai?s five landscapes of globalization are used in this article to demonstrate that storytelling in the mediascape can transform the terrain of an ideoscape. Storytelling is viewed to be of special significance to network organizations because... Read More
with J. ALISON BRYANT PETER R. MONGE
ACADEMIC
Three kingdoms, sense making and complexity theory
Despite the wide, immense and continuous popularity of Romance of Three Kingdoms in China - as popular as Art of War by Sun Tzu - the work is by far less widely known in the West. Yet to the Chinese, Japanese and Korean CEOs in mastering strategy, Th... Read More
PHILOSOPHY
Hopeful monsters
Taking poetics as its base, this paper explores emergence in a constellation of disciplines - semiotics, teleology, and the complexity sciences. In whichever field it is studied, emergence is always Janus-face. I argue that its two aspects, direction... Read More
PHILOSOPHY
Complexity theory and continental philosophy - part 1
Recent studies in Organizational theory have directed themselves towards poststructuralist interpretation. A variant of such interpretation is based on theorists derived from the traditions of phenomenology. Letiche?s PCT is examined as a derivative ... Read More
ACADEMIC
Introduction to "Beyond open system models of organization"
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