Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 23 Issue 2

Once upon a time: The role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and practice

The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss a critical review of the role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and practice.

Rhetoric in management and in management research

The purpose of this paper is to present a critical view of rhetoric, science, scientific research, and management that discloses the role of rhetoric in these fields and that…

Management – decision and interpretation

The purpose of this paper is to present the main characteristics of the model of persuasive management, comparing it with the model of scientific management and the model of…

The reluctant rhetorician: senior managers as rhetoricians in a strategic change context

This paper explores strategic change communication, framed by the idea that managers can be viewed as rhetoricians. The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss senior…

Autopoeisis and meaning: a biological approach to Bakhtin's superaddressee

The purpose of this paper is to explore the connections between autopoiesis, as described by Maturana and Varela, and Bakhtin's work on dialogue in understanding successful…

Slumdog Millionaire: The rhetoric of chance or sentimental management of inequalities in pulp fiction

The purpose of this paper is to reinterpret rhetorical inventions in global multimedia and to re‐conceptualize the theoretical analysis of processes of sentimental representation…

Official chronicles of corporate globalization and unofficial stories of international mobility: Resisting patronage of meaning?

The purpose of this paper is to analyse contradictions, similarities, and differences between official corporate chronicles and individual stories of international managers of a…

Narratives: a powerful device for values transmission in family businesses

This paper seeks to shed light on how core values are successfully transmitted in family businesses via narratives.

Engaging with the unknowable through narratives of personal experience

The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential function of narratives of personal experience in engaging with unknowable reality.

Socialization into modernity: on organizational enculturation in infantocracies

The purpose of this paper is to understand the persistent ambiguity of socialization practices in US and Swedish organizations, which promote a mature work identity while…

The Cost of Bad Behavior: How Incivility is Damaging Your Business and What to Do about It

Managerial rhetoric and narrative legitimacies

4th International Conference on Rhetoric and Narratives in Management Research, ESADE – Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain, 24-26 March 2011