This
series of seminars is aimed at bringing together scholars
who are interested in the nature of stories and
storytelling in organizations, and the use of stories in
research on different aspects of organizational life,
including politics, gender, culture, leadership and
emotion.
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Organizational Storytelling Seminar
1 took place on the
9 July
2001, in
Imperial College
London, and was led by the following
speakers:
- David Boje "Stories of
Tamara-land and Storytelling gameboard"
- Yiannis Gabriel
"Stories, facts, motives and
reasons"
- Yehuda Baruch "from
Macro (stories) to Micro (language) and
back"
- "Storytelling in Organizations"
workshop conducted by a group of storytellers
with organizational consultancy experience
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
2 took place on the
6 December
2001, in
Imperial College
London, and was led by the following
speakers:
- Howard Stein
"Storytelling and Narratives in Traumatized
Organizations: Issue In Method, Theory, and
Application."
- Ato Quayson "Social
Imaginaries in Transition: The Culture Hero in
African Literature and Politics"
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
3 was held in
University College
Cork, Ireland on
28 and 29 June
2002, and was led by the following speakers:
- Yehuda Baruch (School of
Management, University of East Anglia) on
"Once upon a Time there was an
Organization... Organizational Stories as an
Anti-thesis to Fairy Tales."
- Linda Ballard (Museums and
Galleries of Northern Ireland) on "Plotting
the Tale"
- Gibson Burrell (Warwick
Business School) on "Subalterns and the Stage
:'Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead' versus
'Hamlet'"
- Peter Case (Oxford-Brooks
University) on "Blindness and Sight,
Ignorance and Understanding: An Ancient Buddhist
Fable Speaks to Contemporary Issues in
Organizational Studies"
- Barbara Czarniawska
(Göteborg University) on "Humiliation: A
Standard Organizational Product"
- Yiannis Gabriel (School of
Management, Imperial College) on "Telling
Tales: Truths and Untruths in
Storytelling".
- Sebastian Green (Dept. of
Management & Marketing, University College
Cork) and Colette Green on "Organizational
Constellations: A Separate Reality".
- Heather Höpfl (Newcastle
Business School, University of Northumbria at
Newcastle) on "Corrupting Practices: Stories
of the Organisation and the Mouth of
Hell"
- Steve Linstead (Dept. of
Accounting, Finance and Management, University of
Essex) on "Masks of Subversion: Telling
Stories of Storytelling"
- Gearóid ó Crualaoich (Dept.
of Folklore and Ethnology, University College
Cork) on "Vernacular Narrative Tradition as
Resource for Conflict/Trauma Resolution: The Case
of the Irish 'Wise Woman' Legend"
- Majella O'Leary, Donncha
Kavanagh and Diarmuid ó Giolláin (Dept. of
Management & Marketing, and Department of
Folklore and Ethnology University College Cork)
on "Stories of the Subaltern"
- Bo Nilsson (the Nordic
Museum, Stockholm) on "Between Agency and
Discourse in Subaltern Life History Narratives.
The Swedish Case."
- David Sims (School of
Business and Management, Brunel University) on
"Between the millstones: who cares about the
subaltern's storying?"
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
4 took place on
1 July 2003
at
Cass Business School, City
University and was led by the following
speakers:
- Tony Watson and Denise
Fletcher from Nottingham Business School who
spent the morning using a drama to reflect on an
entrepreneurial start-up.
- Dave Snowden, Director of
IBM's Cynefin Knowledge Centre, who talked about
recent developments in the methodology and
practice in the Centre in, for example, working
on counter terrorism with US government
agencies.
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
5,
"The End of Stories and the Limits of
Storytelling", took place at the
University of Exeter on
25
and 26 June 2004. The seminar was organized
by
Majella O'Leary and
Christian De Cock and speakers
included
Yiannis Gabriel, Barbara
Czarniawska, Nelson Phillips, David Knights, Emma
Surman, Julie Allan, Peter Case, Georg Schreyogg and
Ursula Schneider.
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
6 took place on the
13 December
2004, and was hosted by the
Centre
for Narrative Studies, School of Management,
Southampton University. It was led by the
following speakers:
Steve Denning,
(Washington DC)
"The Emerging Management
Discipline of Narrative",
Professor Cliff
Oswick (University of Leicester)
"Stories as metaphor and metaphors in
stories: liberating or constraining
devices"
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
7 took place on the
19 December,
2005, at
Dorich House, Kingston
University, Kingston, London and was led by
the following speakers:
- Raficq Abdullah MBE,
‘Words of Paradise – Birds of the
Soul’
- Dr Paula James and
Dr Julia Courtney (Open
University) ‘The role of the parrot in
literature’
- Dr Jamie Ward (Visiting
Fellow, Kingston University) ‘The North –
South divide in the Morrisons and Safeways
merger’.
- Professor Trisha Greenhalgh
(UCL) ‘Narrative methods in quality
improvement in the NHS’.
- Chris Oliver (Queen Mary,
UoL) ‘Reflective Inquiry’
More information about this seminar can be found
here.
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
8 took place at the
University of
Southampton,
5 May 2006. It
was intended principally for doctoral students,
researchers and practitioners who are at an early
stage of their research careers, and practitioners
about to embark on using narrative methods within
their organisations. It took the form of a Panel
Session, in which experienced researchers discussed
(and disagreed about!) aspects of storytelling
research. An important objective was to link
researchers into informal networks with other
researchers, and to provide a forum for debate about
practical and theoretical issues.
More information about this seminar can be found
here.
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
9 took place at the
University of
East Anglia, 29-30 June 2006.
More information about this seminar can be found
here.
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
10 took place at the
University of
Bath, School of Management, 18 December
2006. The programme, introduced by
Andrew Brown, included nine papers: A year
in the life of an entrepreneur: Narratives of
identity and transformation (Christian De Cock ,
Natahsa Slutskaya & Emma Surman); Once upon a
time: A tale of isolation and maturation (Christine
Coupland); Storytelling for Pain Study (STOPS)
(William House); Researching and Supervising by
Storying Around: An autoethnographic trio (Thomas
Thornborrow , Michael Humphreys & Andrew
Brown); Change across boundaries: Emotion
entrepreneurs tell their stories (Helen Kara); The
paradoxical role of narrative in organizational
change
(Benjamin Golant & John Sillince);
Understanding processes of organizational change:
Longitudinal studies and the construction of theory
from narratives (Anna Soulsby & Ed Clark);
Organizational identity narrative and legitimacy
under major environmental changes: The case of UK
building societies
(Hongwei He & Yehuda Baruch); Story &
anti-story: Patterns of narrative in organizational
change situations (Stefanie Reissner). The seminar
ended with a discussion led by David Sims.
More information about this seminar can be found
here.
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
11 took place at
Royal Holloway
College, University of London, 16th March
2007.
Further details are available
here.
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
12 took place at
Queen Mary,
University of London, 7-8 June 2007.
Further details can be found
here.
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
13 took place on
Friday 14th March
2008 at
Royal Holloway, University
of London. It was aimed principally at
doctoral students, or those whose research in
organisational storytelling is at an early stage. The
theme of the seminar was
"Generating stories as
part of a social research agenda".
For more details about the seminar, please click
here.
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
14 took place on
May 19th
2008 in
Utrecht, NV, and
was also aimed at doctoral students. The theme of
this seminar was
'Stories of Organizational
Change Stories'.
More details can be found
here.
Organizational Storytelling Seminar
15 took place on
30 & 31 October
2008 at the
Free University of
Amsterdam (VU University Amsterdam) . Its
theme
“Talking about the weather, where do we go?
– a seminar about stories in use” spawned
several presentations and discussions on how stories
reflect and stimulate organizational change.
More details can be found
here.
Organizational Storytelling Seminar 16 took place on
15th May 2009 at the
Manchester Business School . Its theme
“Stories we do not tell in organisations: gender, sexuality, heteronormativity and otherness”.
More details can be found
here.