When fiction meets theory: Writing with voice, resonance, and an open end
(2020) In Dialogues in Critical Management Studies 4. p.113-129- Abstract
- In this chapter, we explore genre-blurring writing, where fiction meets theory, following the argument that texts in management and organisation studies suffer from the ‘textbook syndrome’. The stories that we tell through textbooks not only influence, but also set boundaries for, the way understandings are developed through the eyes of the reader. Often textbooks are written in a way that lead the reader into an idealised linear understanding of an organisation–far from the problems, dilemmas and messy everyday life that managers experience. Our discussion builds on previous literature on writing differently and our own experiences of writing a textbook by involving a professional novelist. Engaging in genre-blurring writing opens up how... (More)
- In this chapter, we explore genre-blurring writing, where fiction meets theory, following the argument that texts in management and organisation studies suffer from the ‘textbook syndrome’. The stories that we tell through textbooks not only influence, but also set boundaries for, the way understandings are developed through the eyes of the reader. Often textbooks are written in a way that lead the reader into an idealised linear understanding of an organisation–far from the problems, dilemmas and messy everyday life that managers experience. Our discussion builds on previous literature on writing differently and our own experiences of writing a textbook by involving a professional novelist. Engaging in genre-blurring writing opens up how we think not only about writing, fiction and facts but also in our role as scientists. By situating ourselves, as researchers, at the intersection of fiction and the scientific work, not only … (Less)
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- Grafström, Maria and Jonsson, Anna LU
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- publishing date
- 2020
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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- host publication
- Writing Differently
- series title
- Dialogues in Critical Management Studies
- editor
- Pullen, Alison ; Helin, Jenny and Harding, Nancy
- volume
- 4
- pages
- 113 - 129
- publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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- scopus:85133522589
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- 978-1-83867-337-6
- 978-1-83867-338-3
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- English
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