Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 14 Issue 3

Regulation – the movie: a semiotic study of the periodic review of UK regulated industry

David Crowther, Stuart Cooper, Chris Carter

This paper explores the regulatory process of UK privatised utilities as manifest in the periodic review of prices. Two separate review processes are identified, operating…

Indoor adventure training: a dramaturgical approach to management development

Andrew Broderick, Glenn Pearce

Adventure training (AT) as a movement has its origins in outdoor‐based experiential programs such as “outward bound”. Recently, educators have questioned the educational value of…

A dramaturgical analysis of charismatic leader discourse

Arlene Harvey

Many charismatic leaders are renowned for their exemplary rhetorical skills and powers of persuasion and their sense of drama. Interpreting the charismatic relationship as a drama…

The purpose of the picnic: using Burke’s dramatistic pentad to analyse a company event

Robyn Walker, Nanette Monin

Uses Kenneth Burke’s “dramatistic pentad” as an analytical framework to analyse a company event that in New Zealand became symbolic of social responsibility in action. Presents…

Dramatism as method: the promise of praxis

Steve Graham‐Hill, Andrew J. Grimes

“Praxis” is the stated goal of Radical Humanist scholarship. But, this has been a goal without realization, and without method. To our knowledge there is no record of the…

Looking for Henry

Iain L. Mangham

This paper considers the utilisation of theatre as a means of exploring management and organising. It focuses upon Shakespeare’s Henry V and explores the alternative readings…