Table of contents - Special Issue: Managing Meanings, Coaching Virtues and Mediating Rhetoric
Guest Editors: Kris Rutten, Marja Flory
Managing meanings, coaching virtues and mediating rhetoric: Revisiting the role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and practice
Kris Rutten, Marja FloryThe purpose of this article is to present and revisit the role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and practice.
Narratives: the rhetoric of intentional action
Eduard BonetThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to clarify that narratives have a rhetorical dimension, whose study has to be considered an important part of rhetoric (this claim is…
The emergence of sensemaking through socio-material practices
Noora Jansson, Nina Lunkka, Marjo Suhonen, Merja Meriläinen, Heikki WiikThe purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of how sensemaking occurs as a holistic, processual phenomenon during an organisational change.
Online company blogs as narrations of plural leadership
Arja Ropo, Elina I. Mäkinen, Inka SeppäThe purpose of this paper is to examine how companies that characterise their leadership style as plural, shared or distributed narrate their actions and practices in online blog…
Innocent source of humanity
Kyrill GoosseffTo identify the Transcendental Essence of Humanity, the purpose of this paper is to describe in brief what kind of research became possible when the theory of, e.g. autopoiesis…
Prosperity over time and across generations: the role of values and virtues in family businesses
Maria Jose Parada, Georges Samara, Alexandra Dawson, Eduard BonetDespite the great importance attributed to values in the family business, few studies have focused on their importance and on how such values influence the way family businesses…
More complex images of women at work are needed: a fictive example of Petra Delicado
Barbara CzarniawskaThe purpose of this paper is to convince the readers that more complex images of working women are needed, and that fiction may provide them.
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- Prof Slawomir Magala