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The Aesthetic Turn in Management
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The Aesthetic Turn in Management

by Stella Minahan
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
582 pages
22h 41m
English
Routledge
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[3]Strategy Retold: Toward a Narrative View of Strategic Discourse

DAVID BARRY

University of Auckland

MICHAEL ELMES

WPI

Using narrative theory, this article explores strategic management as a form of fiction. After introducing several key narrative concepts, we discuss the challenges strategists have faced in making strategic discourse both credible and novel and consider how strategic narratives may change within the “virtual” organization of the future. We also provide a number of narrativist-oriented research questions and methodological suggestions.

Strategy’s Changing Story

Looking back, it appears that the field of strategic management had an enchanted childhood. Two decades ago, “planning could do no wrong” (Mintzberg, 1994: 4). In ...

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