Narrating the Organization

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Narrating the Organization is written by Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226132285 (ISBN 10) and 9780226132280 (ISBN 13).

Using a narrative approach unique to organizational studies, Czarniawska employs literary devices to uncover the hidden workings of organizations. She shows how the interpretive description of organizational worlds works as a distinct genre of social analysis, and her investigations ultimately disclose the paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow routine in order to change, and decentralize in order to control. By confronting such paradoxes, we bring crisis to existing institutions and enable them to change.