Academy of Management Annals ( IF 14.3 ) Pub Date : 2016-03-16 , DOI: 10.1080/19416520.2016.1120963 Eero Vaara , Scott Sonenshein , David Boje
Although narrative analysis has made significant advances in organization and management studies, scholars have not yet unleashed its full potential. This review provides an understanding of key issues in organizational narrative analysis with a focus on the role of narratives in organizational stability and change. We start by elaborating on the characteristics of organizational narratives to provide a conceptual framework for organizational narrative analysis. We elaborate on three key approaches to narrative analysis on stability and change: realist, interpretative, and poststructuralist. We then review several topic areas where narrative analysis has so far offered the most promise: organizational change, identity, strategy, entrepreneurship, and personal change. Finally, we identify important issues that warrant attention in future research, both theoretically and methodologically.
中文翻译:
叙事是组织稳定与变革的源泉:未来研究的方法与方向
尽管叙事分析在组织和管理研究方面取得了重大进展,但学者们尚未发挥其全部潜力。这篇综述提供了对组织叙事分析中关键问题的理解,并着重于叙事在组织稳定性和变革中的作用。我们首先阐述组织叙事的特征,以提供组织叙事分析的概念框架。我们详细阐述了关于稳定性和变化的叙事分析的三种主要方法:现实主义者,解释主义者和后结构主义者。然后,我们回顾叙事分析迄今为止提供最大前景的几个主题领域:组织变革,身份认同,战略,企业家精神和个人变革。最后,我们确定了值得在未来研究中关注的重要问题,