Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

A Story-in-the-making: An Intertextual Exploration of a Multivoiced Narrative

Izak, Michał

University of Lincoln

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Abstrakt

The following study will explore the stories which are not told – that is, it will scrutinize the process of intertextual emergence of an ultimately open story: one which has neither discernible authorship nor agenda and which remains in-the-making rather than strives to achieve closure. The paper will discuss the process in which multifaceted and multidirectional organizational stories are created, in which plots and characters exchange and ‘ending’ is defied. This lack of closure is perceived here as a breeding ground for networked meanings, which, if allowed to remain interdependent and plural, eschew the danger of a new organizational story becoming universal carrier of inflexibly established contents. Since the unifying semantic organizational frameworks (e.g. ‘success story’) may be construed as impostors attempting to ascribe both authorship and agency to a nonagentical and non-authored ‘untold story’, this study proposes one way in which multidirectedness and plurality of the story may be preserved.

Metadane

Czasopismo Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 
Tom 12 
Numer 1 
Data wydania 2014 
Typ Article 
Język en
Paginacja 41-57
ISSN 1532-5555