1st Edition

Organizational Research Storytelling in Action

By David M. Boje Copyright 2019
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

‘Organizational research methods’ (ORM) are making an ontological turn by studying the nature of Being, becoming, and the meaning of existence in the world. For example, without ontology, there is no ‘ground’ and no ‘theory’ in Grounded Theory (GT). This book explores ten ways to develop fourth wave GT that is grounded and theory. 1st wave GT commits inductive fallacy inference, 2nd wave GT... Read more

Introduction- Storytelling in Action for Ontological-Organizational Research Methods (O-ORM) for a 4th Wave Grounded Theory



Peirce’s Self-Correcting Series of ‘Fair Samples’ to Verify 4th Wave GT Inferences



An Example of Spirals and Multiplicities in Veteran’s ways of coping with combat stress



Example of Multiplicities in Veterans Traumatic Stress





 



Stream 1 - What would John Dewey say about the Fallacies of Grounded Theory?





Stream 2- What does Brier’s (Peirce and Luhmann) Cybersemiotics approach contribute to 4th Wave Grounded Theory?



Implications of Peircean Ontological Lessons for Spiral Dynamics





Stream 3 - From Nietzsche to Deleuze Multiplicities contributions to 4th Wave Grounded Theory



Primer on Spirals and their Multiplicities





Stream 4 - Heidegger’s Revision of Hegelian Dialectic and Contribution to 4th Wave Grounded Theory





Stream 5 - From Multiplicities of Latour’s ANT to Barad’s Agential Realism and Gerri McCulloh’s Feminist-Materialist Contribution to 4th Wave Grounded Theory



PART II: Barad’s Sociomateriality of Agential Realism



PART III: Gerri McCulloh’s Vital Materialism Diffractions





Stream 6 - Žižek’s Revival of Hegelian Dialectics and Contribution to 4th Wave Grounded Theory



Part I: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit



Part II: Slavoj Žižek’s coubling of Negation of the Negation with Multiplicities



Part III: Žižek’s Critique of Karen Barad’s Agential Realism



Part IV: An Wal-Mart Example of Negation of the Negation with Multiplicity



Analysis





Stream 7 - Savall’s Socioeconomic Trilectic Contribution to 4th Wave Grounded Theory





Stream 8 - Follett’s Hegelian Dialectical Ontology Contribution to 4th Wave Grounded Theory





Stream 9 - Hegel to Marx to Bhaskar’s Critical Realism Dialectics Contributions to 4th Wave Grounded Theory



Marx and Engel’s Dialectic and Historical Materialism





Stream 10 - Boje, Larsen, & Brunn’s ‘True Storytelling’ Contribution to Dialectics and Multiplicity of 4th Wave Grounded Theory



Frank’s Dialectic of Embodied Storytelling



I. Restorable Body



II. Body’s Witness



III. Communicative Body



IV. Chaotic Body



Embodied Restorying Practices





Crossing the Stream: Ten Ways Numeric- and Qualitative-Multiplicity Storytelling are Ontological

Biography

David Boje is Regents Professor at New Mexico State University, USA.