1st Edition
Counter-Narratives and Organization
Part 1: Counter-Narratives and Constitutive Stakeholder Communication
1. Communicatively Constituting the Unfolding of Organization through Counter-Narrative
Timothy Kuhn
2. Counter-Narratives and Organizational Crisis: How LEGO Bricks Became a Slippery Business
Marianne Wolff Lundholt
3. Countering the ‘Natural’ Organizational Self on Social Media
Trine Susanne Johansen
4. "Speaking Through the Other": Countering Counter-Narratives through Stakeholders’ Stories
Astrid Jensen, Cindie Aaen Maagaard and Rasmus Kjærgaard Rasmussen
Part 2: Counter-Narratives in Changes of Identity and Practices
5. Organizational Identity Negotiations through Dominant and Counter-Narratives
Didde Humle and Sanne Frandsen
6. Fractal Change Management and Counter-Narrative in Cross-Cultural Change
Marita Svane, Erika Gergerich and David M. Boje
7. Designer or Entrepreneur? Counter-Narratives in the Professions
Birgitte Norlyk
8. Re-Thinking Counter-Narratives in Studies of Organizational Texts and Practices
Rasmus Kjærgaard Rasmussen
Part 3: Counter-Narratives and Narrative Ecologies of Organizations
9. The Fate of Counter-Narratives: In Fiction and in Actual Organizations
Barbara Czarniawska
10. Narrative Ecologies and the Role of Counter-Narratives: The Case of Nostalgic Stories and Conspiracy Theories
Yannis Gabriel
Biography
Sanne Frandsen is a Post Doc in the Department of Business Administration at Lund University, Sweden.
Timothy Kuhn is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
Marianne Wolff Lundholt is an Associate Professor at the Department of Design and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
"This book brings new insight to the emergent, negotiated practice of organizational narrative, with clear implications for the conditions that create and sustain the vitality of the organization as a storytelling system." –Benjamin D. Golant, Newcastle University Business School, UK
