Anti-dialogic positioning in change stories: bank robbers, saviours and peons
Nic Beech
Stacy A. MacPhail
Christine Coupland
2134/14835
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Anti-dialogic_positioning_in_change_stories_bank_robbers_saviours_and_peons/9504590
Stories people tell of going through change incorporate and react to others around them. Positions can be taken in stories that tend towards the monological, having a singular perspective and being somewhat sealed off from others. Alternatively, stories can tend towards the dialogical, a multiple, less certain and more interactive mode. We explore multiple stories of an organizational change and analyse a paradoxical situation that emerges. We argue that although the stories may have the appearance of being dialogical, they can be seen as co-existing but self-sealing, or anti-dialogic. We introduce an interruption to the story and discuss a possibility for challenging anti-dialogic positioning in change stories.
2014-06-12 10:35:19
Dialogue
Fantasy
Insulating identity work
Self-sealing stories
Business and Management not elsewhere classified