This set of multi-reference works is meant to be read together as
the five volumes interlace one another like the laces of a shoe in
the famous painting by Vincent van Gogh. The question of who will
wear the shoes is long debated in art history and philosophy. If we
take these five volumes from different points of view on the theory
and practice of business storytelling then we have a crisscrossing,
a new and impressive dialogue for the reader. This set is presented
as a new way to lace up the laces of business storytelling.Volume 1
aims to help and inspire leaders, business owners, and researchers
in creating a commitment to ethical and sustainable changes and
ideas, and live in a world of high complexity without getting
stressed but experiencing freedom instead.The book combines tools,
case studies, and theories about the ethical change-management
method of True Storytelling and other perspectives and views on
ethics and storytelling. It delves into important topics such as
true storytelling sustainability and freedom, storytelling and
start-ups in the health industry, storytelling and diversity and
culture, storytelling and teams, storytelling, sustainability and
the UN Goals, storytelling and well-being, storytelling in higher
education, and storytelling and fundraising.Book authors are
experienced and successful researchers, business owners, leaders,
and consultants from Scandinavia, the USA, Africa, and
Europe.Volume 2 is an endeavor into the creation of new concepts
for engaging with sustainability. It maintains that storytelling is
important for our emplacement in nature and can be important for
enacting another relationship between nature and the cultural
artifice — our social and material constructions of houses,
cities, villages, harbors, streets, and railways, and our use of
objects and artifacts to construct our lives.Business storytelling
communication is that space for social symbolic work that brings
the symbolic objects of the organization, the human, and the
natural environment into a dialogical relationship. Volume 3 posits
that organizations are arranged as social symbols that are arranged
in institutions based on the needs of organics, for example health,
food, shelter, mating, leisure, and labor. Organics, as a social
symbolic object, specifically humans, have emotions, language, and
culture to organize their institutions and organizations. In this
book, readers will find that many of the authors attempt to
understand the body's exclusion or attempt to bring the body back
into the organization. Business storytelling communication takes
aim at the social symbolic work of making space to negotiate the
social arrangement of organizations with its organic
components.Volume 4 covers a variety of methodological topics from
a storytelling perspective. Why a storytelling perspective?
Consider that a common business research goal is to convince others
that what the researcher has to say matters. If the researcher is a
basic researcher who wishes to promote a theory, the goal is to
make a convincing case for the value of that theory. If the
researcher is an applied researcher who wishes to promote a
particular application, intervention, or policy change, the goal is
likewise to make a convincing case. Either way, the researcher has
a story to tell, and the onus is on the researcher to tell the best
possible story; storytelling failures likely will result in a
failure to convince others of the value of one's theory or
application.Here is where methodological issues come into play.
Poor methodology, whether in the form of less-than-optimal study
designs or invalid statistical analyses, harms story quality. In
contrast, high-quality methods and statistics enhance story
quality. Moreover, the larger one's methodological and statistical
toolbox, the greater the opportunities for researchers to tell
effective stories. The chapters in this book come from a wide
variety of perspectives and should enhance researchers'
storytelling in the following ways. By opening many different
methodological and statistical perspectives, researchers should be
more able to think of research stories that otherwise would remain
unavailable or inaccessible. Secondly, the present chapters should
aid researchers in better executing their research stories.
Therefore, researchers and graduate students will find this book an
invaluable resource.Volume 5 opens a window into the world of
quantum storytelling as an organizational research methodology,
providing numerous exemplars of work in this storytelling science
that has disrupted qualitative inquiry only with the intention of
providing expanded, improved, and generative ways of understanding
and knowing the narratives that emerge from qualitative interviews
and observations during organizational research studies.
General
Imprint: |
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
Singapore |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Editors-in-chief: |
David M. Boje
|
Pages: |
1400 |
ISBN-13: |
978-981-12-8993-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
981-12-8993-X |
Barcode: |
9789811289934 |
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