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Papers by David M Boje

Research paper thumbnail of A values-based and integral perspective on strategic management.

Research paper thumbnail of Where's the Power in Empowerment?: Answers from Follett and Clegg

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2001

Abstract The purpose of this article is to do a critical postmodern reading of the century-and-a-... more Abstract The purpose of this article is to do a critical postmodern reading of the century-and-a-half empowerment-disempowerment debate. The authors review parallels between turn-of-the-century positions of both the 19th and 20th centuries. Contemporary work on empowerment and disempowerment shows a conspicuous absence of discussion of power. The authors seek to fill this gap by drawing on the work of Mary Parker Follett and Stewart Clegg. Follett's theory of co-power offers a key to overcoming the empowerment- ...

Research paper thumbnail of Fourth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies

Organization Studies, 2011

Process Organization Studies (PROS) is a way of studying organizations that unfolds from process ... more Process Organization Studies (PROS) is a way of studying organizations that unfolds from process metaphysics -the worldview that sees processes, rather than substances, as the basic forms of the universe. A process view rests on an anti-dualist and relational ontology, namely the recognition that everything that is has no existence apart from its relation to other things. A process orientation prioritizes activity over product, change over persistence, novelty over continuity, expression over determination. Becoming, change, flux as well as creativity, disruption, and indeterminism are the main themes of a process worldview.

Research paper thumbnail of The Sexual Politics of Sneakers: "Common Ground" and Absent-Referent Stories in the Nike Debate

Organization & Environment, 2001

Abstract A recent debate between Nike and its critics was published in Organization &... more Abstract A recent debate between Nike and its critics was published in Organization & Environment. The debate included an introduction in which it was claimed that the debaters reached four points of common ground. Agreement on the four points is imputed regarding human rights improvements at Nike's subcontract facilities. The author suggests that this common-ground approach is problematic in several ways. First, some agreement stories are open to alternative interpretations. Second, the privileging of a few areas of agreement is ...

Research paper thumbnail of Capitalism and Christianity, American style

Contemporary Political Theory, 2010

Cowboy capitalism and the Christian right have formed an unholy alliance propelling the US Empire... more Cowboy capitalism and the Christian right have formed an unholy alliance propelling the US Empire to dastardly deeds. Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Novel and other neo-liberal talk show hosts prepare the constituency to hear the story of divinely inspired self-regulated market in minimalist state while assigning blame to the State for each market excess or failure (p. 26). Evangelical fundamentalism links the 'promise of Armageddon to neglect of the future of the earth'(p. 114). Evangelical-cowboy capitalism has propelled the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Board, 2012

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 2012

Skip to content. Taylor & Francis Online: Librarians; Authors &am... more Skip to content. Taylor & Francis Online: Librarians; Authors & Editors; Societies. Register; Sign in; Mobile. Home; Browse; Products; Redeem a voucher; Shortlist; Shopping Cart Cart. The online platform for Taylor & Francis Group content. Search. Advanced Search Within current journal Entire site. Home > List of Issues > Table of Contents > Editorial board 2012. Browse journal. View all volumes and issues. Current issue. Latest articles. Most read articles. Most cited articles. Authors and submissions. Call for papers. Instructions for authors. Submit online ...

Research paper thumbnail of Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research

Organization studies, 2003

... | Ayuda. Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research. Autores: Harrovan L... more ... | Ayuda. Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research. Autores: Harrovan Lente; Localización: Organization studies, ISSN 0170-8406, Vol. 24, Nº 4, 2003 , pags. 658-661. © 2001-2010 Universidad de La Rioja · Todos los derechos reservados. ...

Research paper thumbnail of What is complexity science?

Research paper thumbnail of Restorying reengineering

Communication …, 1997

Page 1. Communication Research http://crx.sagepub.com/ Restorying Reengineering : Some Deconstruc... more Page 1. Communication Research http://crx.sagepub.com/ Restorying Reengineering : Some Deconstructions and Postmodern Alternatives DAVID M. BOJE, GRACE ANN ROSILE, ROBERT DENNEHY and DEBRA J. SUMMERS ...

Research paper thumbnail of L’éthique et les ailes de la tétranormalisation: Proposition ontologique du réalisme agentiel

RESUME La tétranormalisation a pour objectif d'intégrer des normes qui sont disparates (norm... more RESUME La tétranormalisation a pour objectif d'intégrer des normes qui sont disparates (normes commerciales, normes financières, normes sociales et normes environnementales), ce qui laisse supposer une dimension éthique. Les ailes de droite (voir figure ci-dessous) auxquelles nous nous référons (normes commerciales et financières) dans le cadre de la tétranormalisation sont principalement une éthique utilitariste, et ressortissent davantage aux pratiques du commerce mondial. Les ailes de gauche ( ...

Research paper thumbnail of What is TAMARA?

TAMARA JOURNAL

As a tag for the journal-TAMARA, is the “stories we chase from room to room in the mansion of org... more As a tag for the journal-TAMARA, is the “stories we chase from room to room in the mansion of organization science.” In the play TAMARA a dozen characters unfold their stories before a walking, sometimes running, audience. The spectators are expected to choose which characters to follow from room to room.

Research paper thumbnail of A Mentor and His Magic: The Life and Work of Louis R. Pondy, 1938-1987

Research paper thumbnail of A Postmodern Service-Learning Pedagogy

Working for the common good: concepts and models for service-learning in management, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Phenomenal Complexity Theory (PCT)

A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management, 2001

Phenomenal complexity theory entails making three choices: prioritizing experience and consciousn... more Phenomenal complexity theory entails making three choices: prioritizing experience and consciousness above the outcomes of the “natural bent”; choosing a logic of dialogic complexity rather than one of dualistic cause and effect; and a willingness to link the experiential to the complex. These choices define a paradigm for the study of organization wherein the social valuing of organizing and organization can come into its own. It becomes possible to study the politics of organization, in terms of lived community and the shared ...

Research paper thumbnail of How Does Quasi-Object Relate To Enron?

Enron's financial re-engineering was accomplished with 'quasi-objects' and 'm... more Enron's financial re-engineering was accomplished with 'quasi-objects' and 'metatheatre.'I explore the relevance of this quasi-object dramatics analysis for organizational behavior, organizational theory and strategy. Through a textual analysis of Enron documents, news articles, congressional transcripts, and interviews, I illustrate how Enron's LJM partnerships are an example of quasi-objects. In this sense quasi-objects are a hybrid of theatrics and economics that sustains fraud in ways that seduce spectators to ...

Research paper thumbnail of From Wilda to Disney: living stories in family and organization research

Handbook of narrative inquiry, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Hegemonic stories and encounters between storytelling organizations

Journal of Management …

Examines the use of stories in organizations as ways of representing meaning and negotiating cons... more Examines the use of stories in organizations as ways of representing meaning and negotiating consensus. Provides sociolinguistic and ethnographic background, emphasizing the way in which storytelling brings out multiple viewpoints and intersubjectivities in the workplace. ...

Research paper thumbnail of McDonald's: Grotesque Method and the Metamorphosis of the Three Spheres: McDonald's, McDonaldland, and McDonaldization

In this article we pull together and apply the shards of grotesque method to McDonald's Corpo... more In this article we pull together and apply the shards of grotesque method to McDonald's Corporation. Grotesque method was first used by Mikhail Bakhtin in his 1940 dissertation, and is the basis of his later work. We demonstrate the grotesque method in an intertextual analysis of three spheres: McDonald's corporate grotesque body, McDonaldland grotesque bodies, and McDonaldization of the earthly

Research paper thumbnail of Interorganizational Networks: A Meaning‐Based Perspective

The International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Storytelling at Administrative Science Quarterly: Warding off the Postmodern Barbarians

Postmodern Management and Organization Theory, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of A values-based and integral perspective on strategic management.

Research paper thumbnail of Where's the Power in Empowerment?: Answers from Follett and Clegg

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2001

Abstract The purpose of this article is to do a critical postmodern reading of the century-and-a-... more Abstract The purpose of this article is to do a critical postmodern reading of the century-and-a-half empowerment-disempowerment debate. The authors review parallels between turn-of-the-century positions of both the 19th and 20th centuries. Contemporary work on empowerment and disempowerment shows a conspicuous absence of discussion of power. The authors seek to fill this gap by drawing on the work of Mary Parker Follett and Stewart Clegg. Follett's theory of co-power offers a key to overcoming the empowerment- ...

Research paper thumbnail of Fourth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies

Organization Studies, 2011

Process Organization Studies (PROS) is a way of studying organizations that unfolds from process ... more Process Organization Studies (PROS) is a way of studying organizations that unfolds from process metaphysics -the worldview that sees processes, rather than substances, as the basic forms of the universe. A process view rests on an anti-dualist and relational ontology, namely the recognition that everything that is has no existence apart from its relation to other things. A process orientation prioritizes activity over product, change over persistence, novelty over continuity, expression over determination. Becoming, change, flux as well as creativity, disruption, and indeterminism are the main themes of a process worldview.

Research paper thumbnail of The Sexual Politics of Sneakers: "Common Ground" and Absent-Referent Stories in the Nike Debate

Organization & Environment, 2001

Abstract A recent debate between Nike and its critics was published in Organization &... more Abstract A recent debate between Nike and its critics was published in Organization & Environment. The debate included an introduction in which it was claimed that the debaters reached four points of common ground. Agreement on the four points is imputed regarding human rights improvements at Nike's subcontract facilities. The author suggests that this common-ground approach is problematic in several ways. First, some agreement stories are open to alternative interpretations. Second, the privileging of a few areas of agreement is ...

Research paper thumbnail of Capitalism and Christianity, American style

Contemporary Political Theory, 2010

Cowboy capitalism and the Christian right have formed an unholy alliance propelling the US Empire... more Cowboy capitalism and the Christian right have formed an unholy alliance propelling the US Empire to dastardly deeds. Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Novel and other neo-liberal talk show hosts prepare the constituency to hear the story of divinely inspired self-regulated market in minimalist state while assigning blame to the State for each market excess or failure (p. 26). Evangelical fundamentalism links the 'promise of Armageddon to neglect of the future of the earth'(p. 114). Evangelical-cowboy capitalism has propelled the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial Board, 2012

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 2012

Skip to content. Taylor & Francis Online: Librarians; Authors &am... more Skip to content. Taylor & Francis Online: Librarians; Authors & Editors; Societies. Register; Sign in; Mobile. Home; Browse; Products; Redeem a voucher; Shortlist; Shopping Cart Cart. The online platform for Taylor & Francis Group content. Search. Advanced Search Within current journal Entire site. Home > List of Issues > Table of Contents > Editorial board 2012. Browse journal. View all volumes and issues. Current issue. Latest articles. Most read articles. Most cited articles. Authors and submissions. Call for papers. Instructions for authors. Submit online ...

Research paper thumbnail of Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research

Organization studies, 2003

... | Ayuda. Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research. Autores: Harrovan L... more ... | Ayuda. Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research. Autores: Harrovan Lente; Localización: Organization studies, ISSN 0170-8406, Vol. 24, Nº 4, 2003 , pags. 658-661. © 2001-2010 Universidad de La Rioja · Todos los derechos reservados. ...

Research paper thumbnail of What is complexity science?

Research paper thumbnail of Restorying reengineering

Communication …, 1997

Page 1. Communication Research http://crx.sagepub.com/ Restorying Reengineering : Some Deconstruc... more Page 1. Communication Research http://crx.sagepub.com/ Restorying Reengineering : Some Deconstructions and Postmodern Alternatives DAVID M. BOJE, GRACE ANN ROSILE, ROBERT DENNEHY and DEBRA J. SUMMERS ...

Research paper thumbnail of L’éthique et les ailes de la tétranormalisation: Proposition ontologique du réalisme agentiel

RESUME La tétranormalisation a pour objectif d'intégrer des normes qui sont disparates (norm... more RESUME La tétranormalisation a pour objectif d'intégrer des normes qui sont disparates (normes commerciales, normes financières, normes sociales et normes environnementales), ce qui laisse supposer une dimension éthique. Les ailes de droite (voir figure ci-dessous) auxquelles nous nous référons (normes commerciales et financières) dans le cadre de la tétranormalisation sont principalement une éthique utilitariste, et ressortissent davantage aux pratiques du commerce mondial. Les ailes de gauche ( ...

Research paper thumbnail of What is TAMARA?

TAMARA JOURNAL

As a tag for the journal-TAMARA, is the “stories we chase from room to room in the mansion of org... more As a tag for the journal-TAMARA, is the “stories we chase from room to room in the mansion of organization science.” In the play TAMARA a dozen characters unfold their stories before a walking, sometimes running, audience. The spectators are expected to choose which characters to follow from room to room.

Research paper thumbnail of A Mentor and His Magic: The Life and Work of Louis R. Pondy, 1938-1987

Research paper thumbnail of A Postmodern Service-Learning Pedagogy

Working for the common good: concepts and models for service-learning in management, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Phenomenal Complexity Theory (PCT)

A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management, 2001

Phenomenal complexity theory entails making three choices: prioritizing experience and consciousn... more Phenomenal complexity theory entails making three choices: prioritizing experience and consciousness above the outcomes of the “natural bent”; choosing a logic of dialogic complexity rather than one of dualistic cause and effect; and a willingness to link the experiential to the complex. These choices define a paradigm for the study of organization wherein the social valuing of organizing and organization can come into its own. It becomes possible to study the politics of organization, in terms of lived community and the shared ...

Research paper thumbnail of How Does Quasi-Object Relate To Enron?

Enron's financial re-engineering was accomplished with 'quasi-objects' and 'm... more Enron's financial re-engineering was accomplished with 'quasi-objects' and 'metatheatre.'I explore the relevance of this quasi-object dramatics analysis for organizational behavior, organizational theory and strategy. Through a textual analysis of Enron documents, news articles, congressional transcripts, and interviews, I illustrate how Enron's LJM partnerships are an example of quasi-objects. In this sense quasi-objects are a hybrid of theatrics and economics that sustains fraud in ways that seduce spectators to ...

Research paper thumbnail of From Wilda to Disney: living stories in family and organization research

Handbook of narrative inquiry, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Hegemonic stories and encounters between storytelling organizations

Journal of Management …

Examines the use of stories in organizations as ways of representing meaning and negotiating cons... more Examines the use of stories in organizations as ways of representing meaning and negotiating consensus. Provides sociolinguistic and ethnographic background, emphasizing the way in which storytelling brings out multiple viewpoints and intersubjectivities in the workplace. ...

Research paper thumbnail of McDonald's: Grotesque Method and the Metamorphosis of the Three Spheres: McDonald's, McDonaldland, and McDonaldization

In this article we pull together and apply the shards of grotesque method to McDonald's Corpo... more In this article we pull together and apply the shards of grotesque method to McDonald's Corporation. Grotesque method was first used by Mikhail Bakhtin in his 1940 dissertation, and is the basis of his later work. We demonstrate the grotesque method in an intertextual analysis of three spheres: McDonald's corporate grotesque body, McDonaldland grotesque bodies, and McDonaldization of the earthly

Research paper thumbnail of Interorganizational Networks: A Meaning‐Based Perspective

The International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Storytelling at Administrative Science Quarterly: Warding off the Postmodern Barbarians

Postmodern Management and Organization Theory, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Ensemble leadership theory: Collectivist, relational, and heterarchical roots from indigenous contexts

We offer an ‘‘ensemble’’ theory of leadership that emerges from contemporary indigenous scholarsh... more We offer an ‘‘ensemble’’ theory of leadership that emerges from contemporary indigenous scholarship and also from the archeology of the prehispanic southwest. We see ensemble leadership theory as starting from a different origin: the indigenous world-view. It provides an emphasis in the leadership context, which is largely missing in traditional leadership literature. First, the ensemble leadership theory casts leadership as a collective phenomenon, and privileges the collective rather than the individual. This moves away from the ‘‘hero’’ leadership views and instead, connects with the recent ‘‘relationality’’ and ‘‘shared’’ views of leadership, breaking new ground in collective leadership. Second, the ensemble leadership theory is dynamic rather than static, as revealed using storytelling and ‘‘antenarrative’’ analysis. Third, the ensemble leadership theory assumes a social structure, which is decentered as well as multi-centered and nonhuman-centric. Fourth, the combination of dynamism and multi-centeredness yields a structure which storytelling scholars call ‘‘rhizomatic’’ and archeologists term ‘‘heterarchical.’’ These ensemble leadership theory qualities of collectivist, relational, dynamic, and heterarchic are all drawn from indigenous cultures. In particular, archeologists have found heterarchical leadership structures in the prehispanic southwest portions of North America. In sum, ensemble leadership theory offers a time-tested model of a more relational and collectivist view of leadership.

Research paper thumbnail of " The Antenarrative of Negotiation " acepted Sep 8 2015 in the Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation (JSCAN

ithin organizations, there are occasions where a contract negotiation is recognizable, e.g. a job... more ithin organizations, there are occasions where a contract negotiation is recognizable, e.g. a job offer. However, that situation is already embedded in other structures and negotiations. This article explores the nature of such embeddedness. We extend negotiation theory by adding an analysis of the multiplicity of contexts that inform the process of continuous positioning in the organization. We organize the various kinds of influences on the stakeholders along the lines of Boje’s antenarrative paradigm, in order to show how the web of issues, positions and constraints come to form the bases of argumentation that underlie negotiation. We study a case of New Public Management in a university, as an organization with several layers of decision-makers and distributed responsibility for resource allocation. By examining the dynamic development of antenarrative, we contribute a theory of embeddedness that helps to develop strategic ‘bets on the future’ that practitioners can use as a preparation tool before negotiations

Research paper thumbnail of Boje Oswick Ford AMR 2004

Many people believe that language is a tool used to describe and report on reality. Accordingly, ... more Many people believe that language is a tool used to describe and report on reality. Accordingly, the scientific imperative confronting organizational scientists is to discover the independent reality of organizations and to improve the instrumentality of their management. But this is a limited view of language. Language is not only content; it is also context and a way to recontextualize content. We do not just report and describe with language; we also create with it. And what we create in language "uses us" in that it provides a point of view (a context) within which we "know" reality and orient our actions. The purpose of this special issue is to expand on the second point of view of language by looking at organizations as phenomena in and of language. Rather than consider organizations as some "thing" that exists independent of language and that is only described and reported on in language, the contributors to this issue start from the point of view that organizations can be understood as collaborative and contending discourses. As such, we can consider organizations as material practices of text and talk set in currents of political economy and sociohistory-in time and space. From this point of view, what an organization is and everything that happens in and to it can be seen as a phenomenon in and of language. There are, however, differing ways of engaging with organizations and organizing as linguistic/discursive phenomena. These forms of engagement can be encapsulated within several discernible but nevertheless interrelated and interpenetrating strands: • foci of engagement-we can use language as a vehicle for analyzing and exploring organizations and organizing (language as a means to an end) or treating organizations as sites for language analysis (language as an end in itself); • methods of engagement-there is a rich array of methodological alternatives available, including conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, content analysis, deconstruction, narrative analysis, intertextuality, and critical discourse analysis; • levels of engagement-it is possible to think of analyses operating at different levels, ranging from "micro" (e.g., discrete organizational episodes or conversations) through "meso" (e.g., broader patterns and networks of organizational interaction) to "macro" (e.g., grand narratives and metadiscourses with wider social implications); and • modes of engagement-we can interrogate organizations and organizing processes by privileging monologic, dialogic, or polyphonic perspectives. In terms of methods and levels of engagement, we endorse methodological diversity and multilevel analyses. In particular, we wish to encourage more work that integrates

Research paper thumbnail of Critical Discourse Studies Book Review Capitalism and

A book review of Capitalism and Christianity published in Journal, Critical Discourse Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Reflections: What does Quantum Physics of Storytelling Mean for Change Management

Abstract The paradigm shift to quantum physics will mean new approaches to change management and ... more Abstract
The paradigm shift to quantum physics will mean new approaches to change management and storytelling. Because what we thought we knew about space, time, and matter has changed our storytelling of the history, present, and future will be different. My purpose is to reflect on the way changes in what I call the „quantum physics of storytelling‟ prompt important changes in the practices of change management. Antenarrative is a genre of storytelling the future that is an intra-weave‟ with retrospective narrative of many pasts, and living stories of the more
immediate Now-presentness of webs of relationality. One key change to change management is two new theories of antenarrative. Initially antenarrative was defined in 2001 in only two [ontic] ways: the ante (bet) the transformation of the future, and the ante (before) to its fossilization in
narrative retrospection coheres. These seem to connect narrative-past to predicted future-endstates.
In this reflection, I submit quantum physics, because everything from living beings to living things is entangled at the subatomic particle/wave indeterminacy, this quantum-field-ness
necessitates two new [ontological] theories: ante (anteriority) the primordial-future [in-being] ahead of itself beckoning the present, and ante (antecedent) the predicate (or a priori) Being-of -possibilities of authentic care, a calling to Now-ness potentialities.
Key Words: Storytelling, antenarrative, ontological-anteriority, change management, quantum physics

Research paper thumbnail of Antenarratives of organizational change: The microstoria of Burger King's storytelling in space, time and strategic context (D.M Boje, U.C.V Haley & R. Saylors)

This research extends our understanding of organizational sensemaking through storytelling to hig... more This research extends our understanding of organizational sensemaking through storytelling to highlight complex processes of organizational change in space, time and strategic context. We focus on the concept of antenarratives, how managers’ and other stakeholders’ fragmented speculations regarding futures may legitimate or resist organizational change. Antenarratives are not yet fully-formed narratives, but rather pieces of organizational discourse that help to construct identities and interests. We explain the theoretical relevance of Russian socio-linguistic Mikhail Bakhtin’s space and time conceptualizations (chronotopes) for strategic narratives of change, and illustrate how antenarratives play important roles in narrative chronotopes. We relate German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s reasons for being in relation to others (existential ontology) to stakeholders’ and organizational identities, and to antenarrative glimpses in Bakhtin’s chronotopes. Through these theorizations, we contribute to conversations surrounding managerial discourses of organizational change, and discussions on how researchers may analyze antenarratives in relation to stabilized narratives. We use microstoria, or little-story analysis, and the case of Burger King Corporation’s (BKC’s) international strategizing, to highlight emergent conflicts and their resolution for sensemaking that includes diverse organizational stakeholders and affects organizational effectiveness.

Research paper thumbnail of TITLE OF PAPER: SEAM's 'Storytelling Dialectical Method' and the Failure of Appreciative Inquiry as a Scientific Method of Organizational Development and Change

My purpose is to theorize a dialectical storytelling paradigm that can be applied to organization... more My purpose is to theorize a dialectical storytelling paradigm that can be applied to organizational development and change (ODC). Dialectical storytelling is defined here as the self-moving process of scientific inquiry, learning, diagnosis and intervention that is manifested in space, time, and mattering, or more accurately, spacetimemattering, of organizations. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is one-sided, focusing exclusively on the positive stories, a vacuous ‘positivity’ approach lacking negative stories’ content, and thoroughly opposed to any sort of dialectical method of change. The Socio-Economic Approach to Management (SEAM), by contrast, dialectically manages change by focusing on how in each negative
(dysfunction) there is a human Subject and a Predicate of hidden costs that can become transmuted into a positive human potential and an organization value-added. I will declare that SEAM’s unity of Subject and Predicate emerges in a harmony of negative and positive, the has Substance and is thoroughly scientific and quintessentially Hegelian in its dialectic change management, not Kantian, not Marxian, nor some other sort of dialectical approach. I conclude with implications for Hegelian treatment of Spirit as Reason worked out in entanglement of Subject and Substance for ‘quantum dialectical storytelling.’ Žižek’s recent Hegelian treatise has raised significantly problematizes of Barad’s approach to quantum intra-activity of material and discourse for not being dialectical.

Proceeding paper INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ‘ON ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE’ 9-10 June, 2016 Lyon, France ; Organized in partnership with the ISEOR Research Center (Magellan, IAE Lyon, University of Jean Moulin); The “Organization Development and Change” Division and the “Management Consulting” Division of the Academy of Management (USA)

Research paper thumbnail of Encyclopedia of Case Study Research Edited by Mills, Albert J.; Durepos, Gabrielle; & Wiebe, Elden (CA: Sage) 2008 Narrative Analysis – by David M. Boje

Narrative analysis is the sequencing of events and character identities derived by retrospective ... more Narrative analysis is the sequencing of events and character identities derived by retrospective sensory representation. Narrative representations includes first a chronology and second a whole structure of constituent elements that relate together in poetic form, in order to examine how past shapes present, present perspectives filter the past. Narrative analysis represents how the author and others value events, characters, and elements differently. Narrative analysis can be applied to cases used for pedagogy and theory building in the social sciences. Case narratives are sensory representations derived from oral, document, or observational sources (including dramaturgical gestures, décor, or architecture).