A considerable body of literature exists on narratives and stories in explaining how
individuals and groups make and give sense to their experiences in organizations. Classic …

This paper contributes a narrative dimension for the temporality of organizational
sensemaking. Reconciling sensemaking with a broader understanding of time not only …

Our aim is to stimulate critical reflection on an issue that has received relatively little
attention: how alternative presuppositions about time can lead to different narrative ways of …

Although time has been included in theory and theory building as a boundary condition, this
paper argues that time can and should play a more important role because it can change the …

Storytelling is part of social action and interaction that actually shapes the future of
organizations. Organization and management studies have overwhelmingly focused to date …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore time dilemmas in ethnographic research
and develops a facilitating frame for thinking about temporality. Core concepts developed …

Myths, 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 …

Organizing has always been a part of human life, but many scholars approach organizations
as relatively recent historical figures. They view the rise of organizations as coinciding with …

Recent work in organizational and strategy research increasingly accords centrality to
narratives in developing and legitimating future-oriented strategies. Despite this growing …

1 In recent years, we have seen a proliferation of studies focusing on the discursive aspects
of strategy and strategizing (Knights & Morgan, 1991; Vaara, 2010; Paroutis & Heracleous …