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 interpretations of narratives based on stories. In an effort to advance narrative …

discussion of the literature in the fields of brand management, meanings, rhetoric, and narratives. Findings – Brand managers are …

, however, this development has also heightened vulnerability to ideological deception in storytelling. Design …‐à‐vis science, storytelling and ideology. Findings – Žižek's conception of ideological fantasy highlights the impotence of cognitive … experience in organizational narratives and science to erase from view the structural impossibility of social fantasies. Research …

in the sensemaking tradition. Design/methodology/approach – This paper provides a rhetorical analysis of Weick's response …‐Socratic Greek) for critical scholarship in sensemaking research. Originality/value – All scholarly communities need a space for the … disciplinary pedagogy of sensemaking, which is inspired by Lave and Wenger's “legitimate peripheral participation”, with a call for …

‐constructed change management narratives, utilizing a framework derived from the theory of complex responsive processes. Design …/methodology/approach – The research project explored change management through the analysis of narratives arising from participation in group …. Transcripts of the conversations were analyzed for change or continuity in the organizing narratives. The analytical framework …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that organizational change depends on societal narratives – narratives … narratives: “less landfilling” and “wasting less”. Less landfilling has been the dominant narrative for several decades, but …

, material and spiritual narratives and deception in storytelling. Originality/value – The paper provides a useful introduction …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue on the subject of the rhetoric and narratives in … Narratives in Management Research held on March 24‐26, 2011 at the ESADE campus in Barcelona. Findings – The paper reveals …