RETELLING STORIES IN ORGANIZATIONS: UNDERSTANDING THE FUNCTIONS OF NARRATIVE REPETITION
RETELLING STORIES IN ORGANIZATIONS: UNDERSTANDING THE FUNCTIONS OF NARRATIVE REPETITION
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DOI：
10.5465/amr.2011.0329
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发表时间：
2014-01-01
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
Browning, Larry
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作者：
Dailey, Stephanie L.;Browning, Larry
叙事重复是指一个故事从另一个故事中被回忆和重述，它具有丰富的概念深度，学者们尚未对其进行探讨。为了建立这一领域的案例，我们分析了来自学术研究的故事，以确定叙事重复的功能。我们区分了三种通过重复产生的二重性，这三种二重性是基于文化的相同和差异问题。这些二重性--控制/抵抗、分化/整合、稳定/变化--使我们对叙事作为一种解释模式的内在复杂性有了更深刻的理解，并提供了一种变革性的叙事视角，描述了故事的意义如何随着时间的推移而变化。当人们重复故事时，有些人可能会解释稳定的叙述，而另一些人可能会听到变化的暗示。此外，我们提供了叙事重复作为一种新的方法，组织研究的建议，学者使用的一个故事的重现作为出发点，调查到组织的文化生活。
Scholars have yet to explore narrative repetition-when a story is recalled and retold from another narrative-for its rich conceptual depth. To build a case for this area, we analyze stories from scholarly research to identify the functions of narrative repetition. We distinguish three dualities produced through repetition, which are grounded in cultural issues of sameness and difference. These dualities-control/resistance, differentiation/integration, and stability/change-bring a more sophisticated understanding of the inherent complexity of narrative as a mode of interpretation and offer a transformative view of narrative that describes how the meaning of stories shifts over time. When people repeat stories, some individuals may interpret a narrative of stability, whereas others may hear a hint of change. Furthermore, we offer narrative repetition as a new methodology for organizational research with the recommendation that scholars use the recurrence of a story as a starting point for inquiry into the cultural life of organizations.