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Driver, Michaela - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 16 (2003) 5, pp. 534-546

The purpose of this paper is to explore the control of emotions in organizations. An analysis of stories collected from members of different organizations who experienced the events of September 11, 2001 (when the USA was attacked by terrorists killing thousands of people) in their workplaces...

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Managing change at Sears: a sideways look at a tale of corporate transformation

Collins, David; Rainwater, Kelley - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 18 (2005) 1, pp. 16-30

of the literature concerned with organizational storytelling the paper “re‐views” the Harvard rendering of the Sears case …

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The dynamics of narrative and antenarrative and their relation to story

Yolles, Maurice - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 20 (2007) 1, pp. 74-94

Purpose – The nature of narrative is important, and with the development of awareness of knowledge processes, it becoming more important. In particular its notions can be enhanced by examining it in terms of antenarrative. Ultimately the paper aims to explore the relationship between narrative...

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Has Tom Peters lost the plot? A timely review of a celebrated management guru

Collins, David - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 21 (2008) 3, pp. 315-334

endeavours, this paper reviews Peters' organizational storytelling in the light of critical academic reflection in this arena … 2003 from a storytelling perspective. Building upon Yiannis Gabriel's account of the essence of the poetic tale, the paper … decline in this guru's storytelling; the predominance of certain story types; Peters' transmutation from narrator for, to hero …

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Coaching can be storyselling: creating change through crises of confidence

Lapp, Cheryl A.; Carr, Adrian N. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 21 (2008) 5, pp. 532-559

Purpose – To show the reader that storytelling can be seen as a form of seduction based on emotional response and … psychoanalytic approach to text as a place for emotional control. Findings – Storytelling without psychodynamic analysis becomes … psychodynamics which implies that there remains hope for enlightment by the text. Practical implications – Every form of storytelling …

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Storytellers and their discursive strategies in a post‐acquisition process

Steuer, Ruth; Wood, Thomaz - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 21 (2008) 5, pp. 574-588

Purpose – The aim is to discuss how storytelling can be used in different ways to enlighten change processes occurring … critically examined as forms of narratives. Findings – Storytelling gives the organisation the possibility to change its goals …. Research limitations/implications – Through storytelling analysis contradictions and limitations are provoked within the …

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Official chronicles of corporate globalization and unofficial stories of international mobility

Gaggiotti, Hugo - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 23 (2010) 2, pp. 157-165

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse contradictions, similarities, and differences between official corporate chronicles and individual stories of international managers of a multinational company. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis was made following methodological and...

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Our organizations were never disenchanted

Boje, David M.; Baskin, Ken - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 24 (2011) 4, pp. 411-426

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a typology of enchantment approaches that are related to storytelling … explore this enchantment framework in a storytelling drawing on examples of living storied spaces and narratives from hospital … storytelling. Practical implications – The paper equips managers with a deeper understanding of how storytelling in organizations …

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The omnipresent personal narrative: story formulation and the interplay among narratives

Hawkins, Matthew A.; Saleem, Fathima Z. - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 25 (2012) 2, pp. 204-219

Purpose – Stories draw meaning from narratives. The resulting narrative component in a story is entirely personal or contains fragments of organizational and/or societal narratives. Therefore, understanding how stories obtain these narrative fragments is critical to offering valid...

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Persuasive brand management

Iglesias, Oriol; Bonet, Eduard - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 25 (2012) 2, pp. 251-264

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build a conceptual framework that enables an improved comprehension of how brand meaning is constructed. Design/methodology/approach – Conceptual implications are drawn from an analysis and discussion of the literature in the fields of brand...

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