Turning Facts into Stories and Stories into Facts: A Hermeneutic Exploration of Organizational Folklore
分析了作者在不同工作与军事组织中遇到的三个组织故事，每个故事都有双重结构（不同叙述中的变奏和共同核心的神话），这些神话是集体幻想，满足共同欲望，提供宣泄或抵御不幸的机会，并表达矛盾愿望，允许不同解读。
This paper analyzes three organizational stories which the author encountered in different work and military organizations. Each story reveals a dual structure, a recital, which varies in different accounts, and a common core, referred to here as the myth. These myths are seen as collective fantasies, fulfilling shared desires and offering either opportunities for cathartic discharge or a partial inoculation against misfortune. It is argued that the meanings of organizational myths are neither transparent nor unambiguous, often expressing ambivalent and contradictory wishes and permitting different or competing interpretations. The three myths discussed in this paper were all found to be symbolic means of turning passivity into activity, powerlessness into control, and of offering consolations against pain and suffering.