A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies / Edition 1

by Barbara Czarniawska

Overview

From setting up the fieldwork to writing up the research, this volume takes readers through the narrative approach to qualitative research with a focus on organization studies. Inspired by the work of Bakhtin, Eco, Rorty and Silverman, the author demonstrates that narratives are still the main carriers of knowledge in all societies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761906636
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/08/1997
Series:	Qualitative Research Methods , #43
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.26(d)

About the Author

Barbara Czarniawska is Professor of Management Studies at GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Doctor honoris causa at Stockholm School of Economics, Copenhagen Business School and Helsinki School of Economics, she is a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Royal Engineering Academy, the Royal Society of Art and Sciences in Gothenburg and Societas Scientiarum Finnica. Czarniawska takes a feminist and constructionist perspective on organizing, recently exploring the connections between popular culture and practice of management, and the organization of the news production. She is interested in methodology, especially in techniques of fieldwork and in the application of narratology to organization studies.

Table of Contents

Concocting a Device
The Narrative in Social Sciences and Organization Studies
Is There a Method in the Study?
Anthropology as a Frame of Mind
Positioning in the Field, or the Other as Myself
Science as Conversation
A Story of Referencing and Referencing as a Story Telling
Doing the Reading and Doing the Writing
From the Field to the Text