A Narrative Approach to Organization StudiesFrom setting up the fieldwork to writing up the research, this volume takes readers through the narrative approach to qualitative research with a focus on organization studies. Inspired by the work of Bakhtin, Eco, Rorty and Silverman, the author demonstrates that narratives are still the main carriers of knowledge in all societies. |
Contents
Is There a Method in This Study? Anthropology | 19 |
Positioning in the Field or the Other as Myself | 33 |
A Story of Referencing | 51 |
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A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies, Volume 43 Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges Limited preview - 1998 |
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Alfred Schütz anthropology become Bruner called Chicago claim connection construction contemporary context conversation analysis criteria criticism culture Czarniawska device différance discourse analysis engineer ethnographic example fact FD's fiction fieldwork genre human idea identity institutionalized interpretation interview John Van Maanen kind Knorr Cetina knowledge Kunda's Latour lists literary literary theory McCloskey meaning metaphors method mode of knowing modern naive realism narrative approach Newbury Park notion novel observation organization researchers organization studies organization theory organizational Original work published paradox participant observation Paul Klee person perspective practice problem produce QUALITATIVE RESEARCH question quote readers reading realism reality references referencing role Rorty Sage says Schütz scientific semiotic sense sensemaking Silverman social science societies speak story streetcar talk tell tion tive tradition Umberto Eco University Press Veyne Warsaw Weick Western Electronics Window Makers writing zation