@article {6671,
	title = {Thomas Paine: Creating the New story for a New Nation},
	journal = {Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2006},
	month = {2006},
	pages = {183-192},
	abstract = {v rge-scale change at the institutional level is built on four major foundations: change theory, institutional theory, organizational culture and leadership, and contextual discourse and rhetorical persuasion. Thomas Paine{\textquoteright}s writings, a provocative stimulus for the new United States of America during its revolutionary crisis, employed all four of these in creating the nation{\textquoteright}s new {\textquotedblleft}story.{\textquotedblright} In this case, the institution is the pre-Revolutionary concept of governance and the change, driven by multiple forces, is the breaking away of the 13 colonies from England. Paine{\textquoteright}s powerful pamphlet, {\textquotedblleft}Common Sense{\textquotedblright}, as well as his other writings, reflected his rhetorical expertise and served as a cognitive foundation upon which the fledgling nation could build its new script and create new processes of institutional governance. As any good storyteller does, Paine engaged his readers in a conversation that allowed them to construct an organizational reality that articulated their collective identity. He was the change agent whose interventions helped with the birth of a new nation. One Paine biographer (Kaye, 2005) argues that Paine{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblleft}rhetorical patterns{\textquotedblright} helped to create the {\textquotedblleft}vision of America as a nation gifted with a special mission{\textquotedblright} and are still quoted by Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians alike without apology (Ferguson, 2000). },
	issn = {1532-5555}
}
