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- Title
Telling it like you think it might be: Narrative, linguistic anthropology, and the complex organization.
- Authors
Agar, Michael
- Abstract
Terms like 'narrative' and 'story' are pretty confusing for a person who grew up in linguistic anthropology, where both have been used in a variety of ways for a century or so. The author tries to clarify the terms with the following steps. First, investor Peter Lynch's popular use of 'story' serves as an informal and accessible example to narrow the focus, and Weick's concept of 'sensemaking' brings 'story' into the realm of organizational research and practice. Next we draw on the recent work on 'living narrative' by Ochs and Capps. Their five dimensions of narrative give sensemaking a more grounded and detailed meaning. Then concepts from discourse analysis allow us to evaluate sensemaking for its fit with ideas about an organization as a complex co-evolutionary system.
- Publication
Emergence: Complexity & Organization, 2005, Vol 7, Issue 3/4, p23
- ISSN
1521-3250
- Publication type
Academic Journal