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Hervé Corvellec.

Hervé Corvellec

Professor

Hervé Corvellec.

Narrative Approaches to Organizations

Author

  • Hervé Corvellec

Editor

  • James D. Wright (editor in chief)
  • Peter Bryant (section editor)

Summary, in English

This article presents an overview of the narratives in and about organizations. It is structured as follows. The first section introduces the idea that organizational members are Homo Narrans or storytelling beings; the second section describes the tenets of narrative enquiry in organizational settings; and the third section discusses the pros and cons of storytelling, which is the systematic use of narratives to manage people.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

194-197

Publication/Series

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition)

Document type

Article in encyclopedia

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Business Administration

Keywords

  • Narrative

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-0-08-097087-5