Sergeeva, N;
(2016)
The dynamics of story construction: What kinds of stories are generated to serve different purposes?
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Proceedings of the 11th Organization Studies Summer Workshop 2016.
SAGE: Mykonos, Greece.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article focuses on the dynamics of storytelling in organisations. The following three interrelated questions guided the enquiry: What is the role of stories in organisational settings? What kinds of stories are available and why some are activated and others are not? How stories function as collective representations? The study is based on in-depth semi-structured interviews conducted with twenty chief executive officers (CEOs) of UK-based infrastructure, construction and engineering organisations and participation in a number of industry events and workshops. The article’s theoretical contribution is twofold: first, it demonstrates that there is the dynamics of story construction in organisational settings between verbal and non-verbal stories, personalised anecdotal as well as performative, business-oriented stories; second, it is the performative, business-oriented stories that function as collective representations, whilst personalised anecdotal are unique and function as entertainment and engagement with people.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | The dynamics of story construction: What kinds of stories are generated to serve different purposes? |
| Event: | 11th Organization Studies Summer Workshop 2016 |
| Location: | Mykonos, Greece |
| Dates: | 19 May 2016 - 21 May 2016 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://oss.sagepub.com/site/misc/OS_Workshop.xhtml |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | chief executive officers, storytelling, stories |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1496846 |
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