Storytelling in a Central Bank: The Role of Narrative in the Creation and Use of Specialized Economic Knowledge (original) (raw)

Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1999

Abstract

Drawing on an extended ethnographic study of the textual practices of economists at the Bank of Canada, this article looks at narrative construction as a communal process of corporate knowledge making. Employing theories of narrative, genre, and distributed cognition as a conceptual frame, the article traces three stages in the development of a narrative known in the bank as the

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