{"product_id":"storytelling-in-organizations-facts-fictions-and-fantasies-9780198297062","title":"Storytelling in Organizations: Facts  Fictions  and Fantasies","description":"\u003cp\u003eMyths  stories  and folklore are part of the fabric and life of all organizations  enabling us to understand  identify  and communicate the character of the organization - its ambitions  conflicts  and peculiarities. Drawing on extensive fieldwork of storytelling in five organizations  this book argues that stories open valuable windows into the emotional and symbolic lives of organizations. By collecting stories in different organizations  by listening and comparing different accounts  by investigating how narratives are constructed around specific events  by examining which events in an organizations history generate stories and which ones fail to do so  researchers can gain access to deeper organizational realities  closely linked to their members experiences. In this way  stories enable researchers to study organizational politics  culture  and change in uniquely illuminating ways  revealing how wider organizational issues are viewed  commented upon  and worked upon by their members.  The books first part develops the theory of storytelling by building on various approaches  including narrative  folkloric  ethnographic  symbolic  social constructionist  and psychoanalytic  while the second offers a set of four studies which make use of stories in exploring particular aspects of organizational life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651740164149,"sku":"ByrdShop_0198297068","price":68.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780198297062.jpg?v=1781838893","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/storytelling-in-organizations-facts-fictions-and-fantasies-9780198297062","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}