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Narrative Approaches to Organizations

Corvellec, Hervé LU orcid (2015) p.194-197
Abstract
This article presents an overview of the narratives in and about organizations. It is structured as follows. The first section introduces the idea that organizational members are Homo Narrans or storytelling beings; the second section describes the tenets of narrative enquiry in organizational settings; and the third section discusses the pros and cons of storytelling, which is the systematic use of narratives to manage people.
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subject
keywords
Narrative
host publication
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition)
editor
Wright (editor in chief), James D. and Bryant (section editor), Peter
pages
4 pages
publisher
Elsevier
external identifiers
  • scopus:85043420623
ISBN
978-0-08-097087-5
DOI
10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.73118-7
language
English
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yes
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