Organizational storymaking as narrative-small-story dynamics: A combination of organizational storytelling theory and small story analysis

Ann Starbæk Bager, Marianne Wolff Lundholt

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Abstract

We tap into a contemporary discussion where scholars are nuancing the conception of the narrative-counter-narrative dynamics (Bamberg, 2004a; Andrews, 2004; Bamberg & Andrews, 2004). We nuance an understanding of the relationship between organizational narratives and counter-narratives, which are presented as being in a dichotomic relationship (Bamberg, 2004a). Instead, we propose an understanding of the stories that organizational people enact as potentially being both complicit to and counter to organizational narratives simultaneously. This shifts the analytical focus on whether stories enacted by organizational members are either countering or supporting organizational narratives to an understanding that they can be both. We argue that this calls for a complex and nuanced look at how people position themselves and each other in a mix of resistive and supportive force relations when co-enacting stories and identity in organizational settings. As part of this discussion, we propose to speak of organizational narrative-small-story dynamics rather than narrative-counter-narrative dynamics.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelRoutledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives
RedaktørerKlarissa Lueg, Marianne Wolff Lundholt
Vol/bindRoutledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives
UdgivelsesstedRoutledge
ForlagRoutledge
Publikationsdato23 okt. 2020
Sider166-181
Kapitel12
ISBN (Trykt)9780367234034, 9780367564377
ISBN (Elektronisk)9780429279713
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 23 okt. 2020
NavnRoutledge International Handbooks

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