This text explores how narrative and storytelling is an important part of an organisation's strategy, development and learning processes. With examples from Nike, McDonald's and Disney, readers are shown how the theory that underpins organisational storytelling connects with storytelling in...

This book provides new and innovative insights into the field of management and organization inquiry through theory, method, and research. It provides extensive coverage of the 7S structurethat has been so transformational for the field: Storytelling, System, Sustainability, Science, Spirit,...

This article develops an example of Letiche’s article on phenomenal complexity by contrasting academic research projects that have contradictory findings concerning Disney. Some academics think Disney is unfairly critiqued while others think that Disney escapes. Phenomenal complexity theory is...

Attempts to reformulate the notion of organizational control considering the new dictates of the post‐Fordist agenda. Ideology, as a control mechanism, takes on a secondary role with the body (re‐)emerging as the ontological priority for the examination of human subjectivity, or more...

Provides a postmodern view of consultants′ experiences with diversity. Calls into question the relationship between what becomes a “diversity category” and the other differences that remain background. Looks at the political and economic system that sustains the categories of diversity in...

A participant‐observation study of consulting in a large office supply firm of how consultants and organisational stakeholders perform stories to make sense of events and to enact change during their conversations is presented. A theory of organisation as a collective storytelling system in...