Reimagining organizational storytelling research as archeological story analysis
Reimagining organizational storytelling research as archeological story analysis
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将组织讲故事研究重新想象为考古故事分析
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10.1108/qrom-01-2017-1487
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2019
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J. T. Luhman
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作者：
J. T. Luhman
我们应该理解在组织环境中讲述的故事与时间、空间和讲述过程的关系。然而，这是有问题的，因为许多研究人员，作为一种习惯，把组织故事从他们的背景和过程中拿出来，因为他们倾向于通过采访来收集他们的故事。本文旨在探讨这些问题。设计/方法论/方法为了接受脱离背景和过程的组织故事，作者将考古学及其对文物的解释方法视为一种隐喻，以指导未来的故事叙述分析。作者认为，讲故事的研究者需要用文物的考古解释来类比，以便在寻找意义时更有说服力。如果一个人把故事看作是过去话语的产物，在它们被说出的那一刻消失了，这是考古学的隐喻允许的，那么目标就是通过描述它们的形式属性，空间属性和时间推理，从收集到的故事中推理出一个连贯的叙述。之后，人们可以将收集到的故事放在所研究的组织的更广泛的文化背景中。原创性/价值作者提出了“考古故事分析”的想法，作为故事分析的三步法，它允许组织讲故事的研究人员更有说服力地分析从其背景和过程中收集的故事。前两步是解释故事的形式属性和空间属性，而第三步（时间推理）是试图分析讲故事的意图及其对组织生命的影响。
PurposeWe should understand stories told in organizational settings in relation to the time, space and process of their telling. This, however, is problematic since many researchers, as a matter of habit, take organizational stories out of their context and process because they tend to collect their stories through interviews. The paper aims to discuss these issues.Design/methodology/approachIn order to accept organizational stories taken out of context and process, the author looks toward archeology and its method of interpretation of artifacts as a metaphor to guide future storytelling analysis. The author argues that storytelling researchers need the analogy of archeological interpretation of artifacts to be more convincing in their quest to discover meaning.FindingsIf one sees stories as artifacts from past utterances that are lost to the moment in which they were uttered, which the metaphor of archeology allows one to do, then the goal is to reason out a coherent narrative out of the stories collected by describing their formal attributes, their spatial attributes and their chronological inference. After which, one might fit the collected stories within the broader cultural contexts of the organization under study.Originality/valueThe author offers the idea of “archeological story analysis” as a three-step method of story analysis, which allows organizational storytelling researchers to more convincingly analyze stories collected out of their context and process. The first two steps are in the interpretation of the formal attributes and spatial attributes of the stories, while the third step (chronological inference) is an attempt to analyze storytelling intent and impact on the life of the organization.