Part I: Towards a Theory of Organizational Storytelling
Chapter 1: Same Old Story or Changing Stories? Folkloric, Modern,
and Postmodern Mutations
Chapter 2: Storytelling and Sensemaking
Chapter 3: Poetic Modes: Characters, Plots, and Emotions
Chapter 4: Stories, Symbolism, and Culture
Chapter 5: Stories, Culture, and Politics
Part II: Working with Stories
Chapter 6: Using Stories in Organizational Research
Chapter 7: Heroes, Villains, Fools, and Magic Wands: Computers in
Organizational Folklore
Chapter 8: Studying Emotion Through Stories: Organizational
Nostalgia
Chapter 9: The Organizational God: When Organizational Members Come
Face to Face With the Supreme Leader
Chapter 10: Insults in Storytelling
Conclusion: Happily Ever After
Yiannis Gabriel is a lecturer at The Management School, University
of Bath. He is currently engaged in a study of organizational
folklore, collecting, classifying, and interpreting a large number
of organizational myths and stories. He is the author of Freud and
Society (Routledge, 1983), Working Lives in Catering (Routledge,
1988), and joint author of Organizing and Organizations (Sage,
1993), The Unmanageable
Consumer (Sage, 1995), and Experiencing Organizations (Sage, 1996).
He has also written numerous articles that bring together his
research interests in psychoanalytic theory and organization
studies. He is Joint Editor of Management Learning.
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