This chapter highlights the manner by which matter came to matter in an organizational
restorying process. It reports on the important findings of an actionresearch project using …

The purpose of this paper is to improve our understanding of how discursive practices are
related to the sense of reality and materiality. It does not present ways of filling absences in …

The chapter is concerned with the conditions of storytelling in organizations. More
specifically, we explore the conditions for the creation of subjectivity in an era where the …

In this opening chapter, we describe the purposes of the book and put the chapters of the
book into a broader context and in relation to each other. This includes an initial discussion …

Storytelling and the Apparatus of Material Storytelling as a metaphysical, philosophical,
theoretical and methodological backdrop for three modes of enacting 'the between'of …

Organizational studies, as a discipline, has displayed a strong interest in the use of narrative
analysis to investigate issues of concern to scholars, such as those around sense-making …

Abstract there was an organisation that was doing very important work at a very important
time in our world. Some may say that this work was being done in some of the harshest …

Ethical leadership, given scandals from Enron to the current epidemic of 'toxic assets'
bailouts, would appear to be in decline. Instead of increased ethical practices, many …

Abstract Walter Benjamin (Chicago Review, 16 (1), 80–101, 1963) believed that storytelling
was dying because its replacement (narrative and information) was no longer grounded in a …

This paper examines how to use storytelling as impetus for organizational change. A saying
goes that “lasting change starts with me, not with someone else.” The problem of many …