Anti-dialogic positioning in change stories: bank robbers, saviours and peons
Stories people tell of going through change incorporate and react to others around them. Positions can be taken in stories that tend towards the monological, having a singular perspective and being somewhat sealed off from others. Alternatively, stories can tend towards the dialogical, a multiple, l...
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rr-article-95045902009-01-01T00:00:00Z Anti-dialogic positioning in change stories: bank robbers, saviours and peons Nic Beech (7199888) Stacy A. MacPhail (7199891) Christine Coupland (1249806) Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified Dialogue Fantasy Insulating identity work Self-sealing stories Business and Management not elsewhere classified Stories people tell of going through change incorporate and react to others around them. Positions can be taken in stories that tend towards the monological, having a singular perspective and being somewhat sealed off from others. Alternatively, stories can tend towards the dialogical, a multiple, less certain and more interactive mode. We explore multiple stories of an organizational change and analyse a paradoxical situation that emerges. We argue that although the stories may have the appearance of being dialogical, they can be seen as co-existing but self-sealing, or anti-dialogic. We introduce an interruption to the story and discuss a possibility for challenging anti-dialogic positioning in change stories. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/14835 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Anti-dialogic_positioning_in_change_stories_bank_robbers_saviours_and_peons/9504590 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
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Stories people tell of going through change incorporate and react to others around them. Positions can be taken in stories that tend towards the monological, having a singular perspective and being somewhat sealed off from others. Alternatively, stories can tend towards the dialogical, a multiple, less certain and more interactive mode. We explore multiple stories of an organizational change and analyse a paradoxical situation that emerges. We argue that although the stories may have the appearance of being dialogical, they can be seen as co-existing but self-sealing, or anti-dialogic. We introduce an interruption to the story and discuss a possibility for challenging anti-dialogic positioning in change stories. |
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