A Critical Plot Twist: Changing Characters and Foreshadowing the Future of Organizational Storytelling
这篇综述分析了1975至2015年间165篇论文，探讨组织故事讲述研究的演变，发现批判性故事讲述的兴起，并确认了五个主题：意义建构、沟通、变革与学习、权力与异议、身份与异化。
Abstract This review explores the evolution of scholarly research about organizational storytelling over the past 40 years in a sample of 165 papers published between 1975 and 2015. The authors contend that organizational storytelling has established a conventional foothold beside the dominant, scientific narrative of organization studies. Meanwhile, the voice of critical storytelling in organizations has emerged, confirming (and extending) five organizational storytelling themes identified by Rhodes and Brown: sensemaking (and subverting); communicating (and manipulating); change, learning (and challenge); power (and dissent); and identity and identification (and alienation). This review reveals the growing influence of critical management studies, emphasizing the role stories play in disrupting conventional narratives, enriching understanding of present and future storytelling in organizations, and of organizations in general.