Stories as Cultural Creativity: On the Relation Between Symbolism and Politics in Organizational Change
引入维克多·特纳的文化变迁理论，将故事视为不仅代表和整合政治过程，还能创造政治过程，强调其在组织变革中的创造性作用，并以一家电子公司领导层变更的故事为例，得出故事可调解矛盾但也可能阻碍变革的结论。
The organization theory literature on stories concentrates on the role stories play in political processes, especially the representative and integrative aspects. In this essay, I will build on this literature by introducing Victor Turner's work on cultural change. Stories will be seen as not only representing and integrating political process, but also creating them. By focusing on the creative aspect of stories, their role in organizational change is highlighted. This framework is applied to stories about a change of leadership in an electronics company. Two conclusions emerge. First, stories are a form of cultural creativity that can be used to mediate conflicts and contradictions that arise from changing circumstances. Second, stories, despite the fact that they are a form of cultural change, can have a negative influence on the process of organizational change.