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Author Adorisio, Anna Linda Musacchio, author

Title Storytelling in organizations : from theory to empirical research / Anna Linda Musacchio Adorisio
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations
Series The New Middle Ages
New Middle Ages.
Contents Stories, Narratives and Storytelling Practices -- Narrative Research in Organizational Studies -- From Theory to Empirical Research -- Methodology and Methods -- Las Cruces: Stories from a Southwestern Bank -- From Empirical Research to Discussion of Findings -- Living Among Stories: Consolidated Narratives and Rough Fragments -- Models of Decision-Making and the Everydayness of Decisions
Summary Storytelling in organizations is a notion that encompasses both the stories that the organization produces and the ones told by its members. This book aims at studying life in organizations using a storytelling perspective. Storytelling is treated as a practice performed by organizational members and the emphasis is placed on the experience of such individuals. An extensive literature review on narrative, stories and storytelling is provided in the first two chapters together with an in-depth treatment of an empirical case coming from an American banking institution, which serves as a basis for a return to theory and for the articulation of a new line of research. The core of the research contribution must be detected, in fact, in the recognition of the ambivalence of storytelling acts, which witness a constant movement between the consolidated, socially plotted narratives, and the rough and unfinished fragments
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Communication in organizations.
Storytelling.
Communication in organizations -- United States -- Case studies
Storytelling -- United States -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Communication -- General.
Communication in organizations
Storytelling
Kommunikation inom organisationer.
Storytelling.
Innerbetriebliche Kommunikation.
USA.
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230271753
0230271758
1282673882
9781282673885
9786612673887
6612673885