1st Edition
Storytelling in Management Practice Dynamics and Implications
1. Introduction 2. Storytelling in Management Practice: Definitions, Rhetoric, Assumptions 3. Theoretical Foundations and Conceptualizations of Storytelling in Management Practice 4. Storytelling at the Macro Level: Constructing the Organization 5. Storytelling at the Meso Level: Sense Making in Organizations 6. Storytelling at the Micro Level: Weaving or Weakening the Organization's Social Fabric 7. Dynamics of Storytelling in Management Practice 8. Conclusion
Biography
Stefanie Reissner is Lecturer in Organization Studies at Newcastle University Business School, UK. Her research interests include narrative, sensemaking and storytelling. She has published her work in academic journals and is author of Narratives of Organisational Change and Learning: Making Sense of Testing Times (2008, Edward Elgar)
Victoria Pagan is Teaching Assistant and a PhD candidate at Newcastle University Business School, UK. Prior to this she was a research and evaluation consultant. Her research interests include organization studies and theory, power, politics, and narrative and she has co-authored work published in academic journals
