Session Summary

Session Number:805
Session ID:S195
Session Title:Narrating Organizational Knowledge
Short Title:Narrating Org'l Knowledge
Session Type:Division Symposium
Hotel:Swiss
Floor:LL3
Room:Alpine I
Time:Tuesday, August 10, 1999 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM

Sponsors

RM  (Karen Golden-Biddle)karen.golden-biddle@ualberta.ca (403) 492-8901 

General People

Chair Locke, Karen D. College of William and Mary karend@norfolk.infi.net [(757)-221-2889] 

Submissions

What if Stories were the Unit of Analysis for Research on Knowledge in Organizations? Conceptual and Methodologial Implications 
Presenter Bartel, Caroline  New York U. cbartel@stern.nyu.edu (212)-998-0266 
Strategic Stories and Improvement of Strategic Thinking 
Presenter Bromiley, Philip  U. of Minnesota pbromiley@csom.umn.edu (612) 624-5746 
Presenter Brown, Robin  U. of Minnesota brown004@tc.umn.edu [(612)-624-8878] 
Re-presenting Organizational Knowledge 
Presenter Reay, Trish  U. of Alberta preay@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca 403-487-6121 
Presenter Locke, Karen D. College of William and Mary karend@norfolk.infi.net [(757)-221-2889] 
Research as Contexualized Stories: Everyday Conversations and Sense Making 
Presenter Cunliffe, Ann L. U. of New Hampshire annc@christa.unh.edu (603)-862-3330 

Abstract

This symposium explores the role of narrative in the creation, communication, conservation and transfer of organizational knowledge. Specifically, it explores the relationship between narrative and organizational knowledge from a number of quite different perspectives. These include: narrative as clinical method introduced to organizational strategic planning processes by organizational scholars in a clinical researcher role; narrative as organizational stories that both communicate and create knowledge and that constitute a critical unit of analysis for organizational scholars in a researcher role; narrative as journal article - formal "knowledge texts" and as re-telling of previous research experience that constitute a unit of analysis for organizational scholars as reflexive researcher; and narrative as theoretical accounts of experience co-constructed between organizational scholars in a researcher/participant role and managers in a participant/researcher role. We expect that the plurality of perspectives represented in this symposium's participants will stimulate discussion about the interconnections between the knowledge creating and disseminating practices of researchers, consultants, and managers in academic and organizational communities.