Writing Organization; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Pre-text: On writing a research monograph; Part 1: Writing about organizations; Chapter 1. Introduction: Writing, representation and research; Chapter 2. Storytelling and the heteroglossic organization; Chapter 3. Writing the heteroglossic organization; Part 2: (Re)presentations; Chapter 4. World Services: An official story; Chapter 5. World Services: Three autobiographical (re)presentations; Chapter 6. World Services: An ethnographic (re)presentation
Summary
Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research. To explore this, the book reports a research project in the area of organisational storytelling that investigates how people in one organisation used stories to (re)present their own learning experiences from the implementation of a quality management program. This research is written in three principal genres: autobiography, ethnography and a fictional short story. These (re)presentational strategies are reviewed to examine how different genres effect
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-126) and indexes
