Special Issue

The Special Issue of Organization on Storytelling and Change
(ed. Andrew Brown, Yiannis Gabriel and Silvia Gherardi)
is published in March 2009.

Contents:

  • Andrew D. Brown, Yiannis Gabriel and Silvia Gherardi, Storytelling and Change: An Unfolding Story
  • Nic Beech, Stacy A. MacPhail and Christine Coupland, Anti-dialogic Positioning in Change Stories: Bank Robbers, Saviours and Peons
  • Michaela Driver, From Loss to Lack: Stories of Organizational Change as Encounters with Failed Fantasies of Self, Work and Organization
  • David Sims, Chris Huxham and Nic Beech, On Telling Stories but Hearing Snippets; Sense-taking from Presentations of Practice
  • Anne Reff Pedersen, Moving Away from Chronological Time: Introducing the Shadows of Time and chronotopes as New Understandings of ‘Narrative Time’
  • Annalisa Murgia and Barbara Poggio, Challenging Hegemonic Masculinities: Men’s Stories on Gender Culture in Organizations
  • Andrea Whittle, Frank Mueller and Anita Mangan, Storytelling and ‘Character’: Victims, Villains and Heroes in a Case of Technological Change
  • Maria Elisa Peirano-Vejo and Ralph E. Stablein, Constituting Change and Stability: Sensemaking Stories in a Farming Organization