Antenarratives of organizational change: The microstoria of Burger King’s storytelling in space, time and strategic context

Human Relations

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 391-418

  Boje, David M ^a   Haley, Usha CV ^b   Saylors, Rohny ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

antenarrative; Bakhtin; change; communication; Heidegger; polyphony; storytelling; time

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; NARRATIVE; ONTOLOGY; SCIENTIST; STORYTELLING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84957811980     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726715585812     Document Type: Article

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