ABSTRACT

The field of organizational storytelling research is productive, vibrant and diverse. Over three decades we have come to understand how organizations are not only full of stories but also how stories are actively making, sustaining and changing organizations. This edited collection contributes to this body of work by paying specific attention to stories that are neglected, edited out, unintentionally omitted or deliberately left silent.

Despite the fact that such stories are not voiced they have a role to play in organizational analysis. The chapters in this volume variously explore how certain realities become excluded or silenced. The stories that remain below the audible range in organizations offer researchers an access to study political practices which marginalise certain organisational realities whilst promoting others. This volume offers a further contribution by paying heed to silence and the processes of silencing. These silences influence the choice of issues on organisational agendas, the choice of audience(s) to which these discourses are addressed and the ways of addressing them.

In exploring these relatively understudied terrains, Untold Stories in Organizations comprises an important contribution to the organizational storytelling space, opening paths for new trajectories in storytelling research.

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

part I|76 pages

The Silence, Subconscious, Meaning, and Narrative

chapter 2|11 pages

Storying as the Meaning, and the Evasion, of Life

Reflections on When Stories Might be Better Left Untold

chapter 3|16 pages

Dr Harry Goes to Grantham

A Momentary Perspective on Narrative Construction, Omission, and Interpretation

chapter 4|23 pages

Hidden Truths

Using Literature to Explore the Untold Stories of the Corporate Subconscious 1

chapter 5|24 pages

Marketing beyond Seduction

Androgyny and the Untold Tale of Socially Responsible Advertising

part II|124 pages

Untold Stories on the Social and Political Agenda

chapter 6|19 pages

A Telling Silence

Beckett, Kafka, and the Experience of Being Unemployed

chapter 7|21 pages

Stories Gone Cold

An Analysis of Untold Organizational Stories among Reference Librarians

chapter 9|25 pages

"I Just Want a Job"

The Untold Stories of Entrepreneurship

chapter 10|22 pages

Aquifer Analysis

Told and Untold Stories in Warwick Churches 1

chapter 11|21 pages

How Stories Make It

Antenarrative, Graffiti, and Dead Calves

part III|38 pages

Untold Story and Methodology

chapter |26 pages

Method and Story Fragments

Working through Untold Method

chapter 13|10 pages

Afterword

Untold Story Futures