David M Boje

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 ...

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 ...

... | 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. ...

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 ( ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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

Should we define deconstruction? Defining deconstruction or laying out steps as in Table 1 is contrary to the spirit of Derrida's idea. Nevertheless, I can not avoid the temptation, so I will define deconstruction as a “double.” It is two ideas. Deconstruction is both phenomenon and analysis. It is phenomenon because “Las Vegas deconstruction” is all the constructing and reconstructing processes happening all around not only the city, but also its imitation in cities around the world. Deconstruction is also analysis, as I have come to understand it. I follow ...

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyze media storytelling and rhetoric surrounding the credibility of the longstanding accounting practice of mark-to-market valuation. Design/methodology/approach–The cascading storytelling model of progressive framing by the media of mark-to-market valuation was applied to story subsets of the three types of classic Aristotelian rhetorical appeals.

Emergence is to complexity as Mona Lisa's smile is to mystery; it is the visible product of an underlying process at work. Emergent phenomena occur unpredictably but consistently exhibit familiar patterns that strike a chord in all of us, though we seldom understand why. For example, fractal patterns, the repeated artifacts of emergence, are self-similar across various scales and can be mathematically described using a power law (Johnson, 2007; Leibovitch, 1998; Ward, 2002). Mathematical symbology offers only one language for ...

According to TwoTrees (I997), stories have three properties: time, place and mind. We believe that many narratologies currently being applied in the field of organizational analysis and the social sciences more broadly marginalize these three properties. In effect, narratology marginalizes story. In what follows, we will critically review common narratologies and suggest some ways in which the idea of story can be returned to analysis. Stories, TwoTrees suggests, have:

Research is prestoried into an intelligible account before it reaches these pages. Retelling stories about research encounters is a collective process between multiple participants and authors with varying power to select whose story fragments to include, and between two reviewers and the editor who competently improve and yet influence the writing. You as the reader, as you begin to follow the story we lay out before you, also read between the lines we authors have written. You also lend your own story of this research project, as you ...

The Wageningen UR Library Catalogue contains bibliographic data on books and periodicals held by the libraries of Wageningen University and Research Centre and some 15 associated libraries. Holding data are added to each record. ... Subjects covered include Agrotechnology, Food and Food Production, Plant and Animal Sciences, Soil Science, Geo-information, Landscape and Spatial Planning, Water and Climate, Ecosystem Studies, Economics and Society. ... The joint collections of the participating libraries cover a substantial part of ...

Abstract Enron is more than tragedy; it is epic theatre. Epic theatre is not one narrator on one stage; it is a multitude of simultaneous theatric performances, collectively negotiated by inquiry participants (reporters, regulators, analysts), narrating while wandering in an unstable labyrinth of networked stages. Narrators of the Enron epic (in contrast to tragic) grasp together a wider cast of characters, interlace more historical incidents, and suggest broader systemic changes to capitalism and democracy. The stages of dramatic action ( ...

Abstract An important aspect of organizational culture, which gives meaning to process and structure in human interaction, is myth making. This article proposes that organizational myths must be analyzed and incorporated into planning for organizational development. Typologies are presented to categorize myths according to their function. The role of myth within the organization's culture is discussed. The consultant is provided with methods and qualitative techniques for diagnosing the meanings and functions of myths. A life-cycle ...

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- ...

Each chapter answers two implicit questions:'what is the relation between story and narrative?'and 'how can Knowledge Management (KM) or Knowledge Engineers (KRs) explicit science protocol extract, codify, and disseminate tacitness using story/narrative?'My first critique is that, with two exceptions, the critique of KM and KE as hegemonic commodification and colonization projects of managerialism is quite thin. My second critique is that the editors leave the ways that the chapter authors interrelate story and narrative to ...

Abstract Our aim is to stimulate critical reflection on an issue that has received relatively little attention: how alternative presuppositions about time can lead to different narrative ways of researching and theorizing organizational life. Based on two amendments to Paul Ricoeur's work in Time and Narrative, we re-story narrative research in organizations as Narrative Temporality (NT). Our amendments draw upon the temporality perspective of Jean-Paul Sartre in order to reframe narrative research in organizations as a fluid, dynamic, yet ...

The questions raised at the end of the expatriate case suggest that Moore does indeed understand, at least on one level, the sources of her expatriate problem. In the case of Sadie, was it a lack of communication about expectations? Yes. Was it a problem with the receiving department not integrating her into the local workforce? Yes. Was it a problem of the expatriate being poorly prepared? Yes. Moore is wise to seek help in understanding and remedying the all-too-common problem of expatriate failures. Each case, no doubt, has its ...

Abstract: Uses Nike as an example to explore the impact of corporate writing (in annual reports, press releases, advertisements, web pages, sponsored research, and consultant reports). Shows how the intertextual web of" Nike Writing," as it legitimates industry-wide labor and ecological practices has significant, negative consequences for academic scholarship and writing. Advocates deconstructing corporate writing in business communication classrooms.(SR)

Abstract Professor David M. Boje is the agent provocateur of the postmodern era. Famed as a scholar, one of those precious few scholars who can actually make postmodernism accessible and meaningful, David provokes us through the gift of perspective. David's work moves us by giving us insight into the unseen and by helping us to engage the mystery that lies just beyond our regular comprehension. And if we consider perspective gaining for a moment, we find that is exactly what our scholarly work is about: We give the gift of ...

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

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

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

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)

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).