Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 25 Issue 2

The rhetoric and narratives in management research

The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue on the subject of the rhetoric and narratives in management research.

The omnipresent personal narrative: story formulation and the interplay among narratives

Stories draw meaning from narratives. The resulting narrative component in a story is entirely personal or contains fragments of organizational and/or societal narratives…

Legitimate peripheral irritations

In 2010, the author published a practical critique of some of Karl Weick's writings, to which Weick offered a rejoinder. The purpose of this paper is to use his response as an…

Organizations as discursive gravitational fields

The purpose of this paper is to present a metaphor of organizations as discursive gravitational fields.

Persuasive brand management: How managers can influence brand meaning when they are losing control over it

The purpose of this paper is to build a conceptual framework that enables an improved comprehension of how brand meaning is constructed.

The rhetoric of synergy in a global corporation: Visual and oral narratives of mimesis and similarity

The purpose of this paper is to expand understanding about the rhetoric of synergy and how it is manifested in a global corporation, Tubworld (name changed), during a period of…

Complexity and change management: analyzing church leaders' narratives

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel approach to the analysis of individual and co‐constructed change management narratives, utilizing a framework derived from the…

From “less landfilling” to “wasting less”: Societal narratives, socio‐materiality, and organizations

The purpose of this paper is to show that organizational change depends on societal narratives – narratives about the character, history, or envisioned future of societies.

Creating organizational cultures: Re‐conceptualizing the relations between rhetorical strategies and material practices

The purpose of this paper is to re‐conceptualize the relations between rhetorical strategies and material practices in the processes whereby leaders create or change…

Re‐writing the organization: the ideological deadlock of narrative methodology

The purpose of this paper is to argue that narrative methodology is increasingly caught in an ideological deadlock set in terms of a false choice between meaning (an unconditional…

Corporate Psychopaths: Organisational Destroyers

Managing People in a Downturn