Sub-theme 61: The Imperfection of Perfect Organizational Narratives
Convenors:
Adriana Wilner, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP), Brazil
Hamid Foroughi, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Tania Pereira Christopoulos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, TC.5.12
Storytelling and Time
Chair: Hamid Foroughi
Eleonora Carloni and Stefan Meisiek
History retold: Corporate museums as producers of rhetorical narratives
Discussant(s): Ian Jones
Ian Jones
Perfect past as a path to a perfect future: Barclays’ use of its past to manage reputational damage
Discussant(s): Eleonora Carloni & Stefan Meisiek
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, TC.5.12
Stoytelling during Crisis and Change
Chair: Adriana Wilner
Bertrand Audrin
Holacracy in the making: Competing narratives in a Swiss SME on its way to change
Discussant(s): Minna Tuulia Ahokas
Samir Lótfi Vaz, Karina Novaes and Eduardo Figueiredo
Discursive practices enacted by consultants in strategy workshops
Discussant(s): Bertrand Audrin
Minna Tuulia Ahokas
Rethinking responsibility in business – An antenarrative perspective
Discussant(s): Samir Vaz, Karina Novaes & Eduardo Figueiredo
Session III: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, TC.5.12
Storytelling and Fractured Identities
Chair: Hamid Foroughi
Maria Farkhondeh and Barbara Müller-Christensen
The fantasy of the perfect organization: The dysfunction effects of perfect organizational identity narratives
Discussant(s): Esra Paca
Katherine H. Parsons
Perfecting founding narratives: An ethnography of entrepreneurial opportunity (EO) and entrepreneurial identity (EI) construction
during early-stage new venture creation (NVC)
Discussant(s): Katja Einola, Zahira Jaser & Mats Alvesson
Katja Einola, Zahira Jaser and Mats Alvesson
Who
am I if not a banker? In and out of a templated subjectivity in investment bank
working life
Discussant(s): Maria Farkhondeh & Barbara Müller
Esra Paca
The counter-narratives within: A Jungian lens towards organisational master narratives
Discussant(s): Katherine H. Parsons
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, TC.5.12
The Role of Media in Storytelling
Chair: Adriana Wilner
Kate Kenny and Meghan Van Portfliet
Speaking out and digital affect culture
Discussant(s): Marilyn Poon
Marilyn Poon
The communicative constitution of subjectivities – Applying a Foucauldian lens to polyphonic protest art
Discussant(s): Stephen Reid & Ion Bogdan Vasi
Stephen Reid and Ion B. Vasi
All the news that’s fit to wire: Organizational images and media amplification platforms
Discussant(s): Kate Kenny & Meghan Van Portfliet
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, TC.5.12
Marketing Storytelling
Chair: Tania Pereira Christopoulos
Alaa Chaabo
Semantic multiplicity: How lexical ambiguity elicit imperfect organizational discourse sustaining category ambiguity In case
of NPD
Discussant(s): Jonathan Berg, Lieke Oldenhof, Jeroen van Wijngaarden & Kim Putters
Ashley J. MacDonald, Gabrielle Schenkels and Christopher M. Hartt
Do farmer stories on Facebook paint an effective picture of the New Brunswick dairy industry?
Discussant(s): Alaa Chaabo
Jonathan Berg, Lieke Oldenhof, Jeroen van Wijngaarden and Kim Putters
Which
client deserves a deviation from the rule? Competing responsiveness stories
among front-line workers
Discussant(s): Terje Gaustad & Lukas Erni
Terje Gaustad and Lukas Erni
Potential gains and losses from imperfect platform narratives: The case of Tour de Ski
Discussant(s): Ashley J. MacDonald, Gabrielle Schenkels & Christopher M. Hartt
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, TC.5.12
Sustainability Storytelling
Chair: Tania Pereira Christopoulos
Emiel Eijdenberg and Felix Ostertag
The route to scaled social impact: Narratives of social entrepreneurs’ orchestration of social bricolage and identity work
in emerging economies
Discussant(s): Niina Erkama & Pien ter Beek
Mirjam Goudsmit and Stephanie Koornneef
The perfect picture: The use of narratives and visuals on responsibility by fashion companies
Discussant(s): Emiel Eijdenberg & Felix Ostertag
Niina Erkama and Pien ter Beek
“Actually that is borrowed sustainability…” Tensions in developing and making sense of organizational sustainability narrative
Discussant(s): Mirjam Goudsmit & Stephanie Koornneef
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, TC.5.12
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