Table of Contents

Part I: Towards a Theory of Organizational Storytelling
Chapter 1: Same Old Story or Changing Stories? Folkloric, Modern, and Postmodern Mutations
Chapter 2: Storytelling and Sensemaking
Chapter 3: Poetic Modes: Characters, Plots, and Emotions
Chapter 4: Stories, Symbolism, and Culture
Chapter 5: Stories, Culture, and Politics
Part II: Working with Stories
Chapter 6: Using Stories in Organizational Research
Chapter 7: Heroes, Villains, Fools, and Magic Wands: Computers in Organizational Folklore
Chapter 8: Studying Emotion Through Stories: Organizational Nostalgia
Chapter 9: The Organizational God: When Organizational Members Come Face to Face With the Supreme Leader
Chapter 10: Insults in Storytelling
Conclusion: Happily Ever After

About the Author

Yiannis Gabriel is a lecturer at The Management School, University of Bath. He is currently engaged in a study of organizational folklore, collecting, classifying, and interpreting a large number of organizational myths and stories. He is the author of Freud and Society (Routledge, 1983), Working Lives in Catering (Routledge, 1988), and joint author of Organizing and Organizations (Sage, 1993), The Unmanageable
Consumer (Sage, 1995), and Experiencing Organizations (Sage, 1996). He has also written numerous articles that bring together his research interests in psychoanalytic theory and organization studies. He is Joint Editor of Management Learning.

Reviews

`richness in new ideas ... deserves to be a standard reference for students of stories in organizational life'
O.S. Vol.22, No.2, 2001
This is a good piece of discourse about organizational stories, written with elegance and drive
`the book is creative and includes a number of fresh ideas for future researchers'
O.S. Vol.22, No.2, 2001
`informative, well-written, well-researched and a pleasure to read'
O.S. Vol.22, No.2, 2001