{"id":2272,"date":"2015-03-11T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T06:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2015-03-11T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T06:28:10","slug":"organization-narrative-the-narrative-turn-in-organizational-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"Organization Narrative: The Narrative Turn in Organizational Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dun-Hou Tsai<\/strong>
\nDept. of Business Management\u00a0National Sun Yat-sen University
\nTed Yu-Chung Liu<\/strong>
\nDept. of Education, National Pingtung University of Education<\/p>\n

In the past few decades, narrative inquiry as a qualitative methodology has received increasing attention in Social Sciences. Given the trend toward narrative turn in organizational studies, the view of organization as an individual entity has shifted to one that takes organization as a combination of idiosyncratic collectives – shaped by individuals with distinguished roles developed in the dynamic processes in the organization. In short, organization is no longer taken as a static entity, and research focus has been shifted to organizing processes. This study reviews the context mentioned above – the boost up of the postmodern perspective in organizational studies, makes the comparison between the meanings of \u201corganization\u201d and \u201corganizing,\u201d and suggests two sorts of applications concerning how narrative inquiry may be related to the studies on \u201cidentity\u201d and \u201cunderstanding of practical experiences\u201d in organizational studies. We suggest that this \u201cnarrative turn\u201d in organizational studies not only adds a new type of qualitative methodology as a \u201cnew\u201d alternative in research approach, but also presents as a fundamental questioning and revision to the prerequisite of epistemology of \u201cLogical Positivism\u201d in management science and organizational study. Aside from the theoretical implications, it also offers a practical response and a method for the real problems encountered by current managerial practices. Narrative is more than narrating;\u201d narrative turn\u201d represents the introspection of \u201cdecontextualized\u201d managerial knowledge and practice. It highlights the value of \u201cpersonal theory\u201d and the accumulation of \u201cfolk wisdom,\u201d and suggests that useful managerial knowledge may be acquired through the extraction of \u201cnarrative knowing\u201d and \u201cmodel of narrative cognition.<\/p>\n

Keyword: narrative turn, organization and organizing, local intelligence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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