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Author:   Yiannis Gabriel (Lecturer at The Management School, Lecturer at The Management School, University of Bath)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.547kg
ISBN:  

9780198290957

ISBN 10:   0198290950
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   23 March 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Towards a Theory of Organizational Storytelling Chapter 1: Same Old Story or Changing Stories? Folkloric, Modern, and Postmodern Mutations Chapter 2: Storytelling and Sensemaking Chapter 3: Poetic Modes: Characters, Plots, and Emotions Chapter 4: Stories, Symbolism, and Culture Chapter 5: Stories, Culture, and Politics Part II: Working with Stories Chapter 6: Using Stories in Organizational Research Chapter 7: Heroes, Villains, Fools, and Magic Wands: Computers in Organizational Folklore Chapter 8: Studying Emotion Through Stories: Organizational Nostalgia Chapter 9: The Organizational God: When Organizational Members Come Face to Face With the Supreme Leader Chapter 10: Insults in Storytelling Conclusion: Happily Ever After

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richness in new ideas ... deserves to be a standard reference for students of stories in organizational life O.S. Vol.22, No.2, 2001 This is a good piece of discourse about organizational stories, written with elegance and drive the book is creative and includes a number of fresh ideas for future researchers O.S. Vol.22, No.2, 2001 informative, well-written, well-researched and a pleasure to read O.S. Vol.22, No.2, 2001

Author Information

Yiannis Gabriel is a lecturer at The Management School, University of Bath. He is currently engaged in a study of organizational folklore, collecting, classifying, and interpreting a large number of organizational myths and stories. He is the author of Freud and Society (Routledge, 1983), Working Lives in Catering (Routledge, 1988), and joint author of Organizing and Organizations (Sage, 1993), The Unmanageable Consumer (Sage, 1995), and Experiencing Organizations (Sage, 1996). He has also written numerous articles that bring together his research interests in psychoanalytic theory and organization studies. He is Joint Editor of Management Learning.

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