Crossroads Writing Organizational Tales: Four Authors and Their Stories About Culture. Introduction

Dvora Yanow
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Dvora Yanow: Department of Public Administration, California State University, Hayward, California 94542-3040

Organization Science, 1995, vol. 6, issue 2, 225-226

Abstract: The title of this collection of short essays derives from Tales of the Field (Van Maanen: Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL). In it, John Van Maanen argues that researchers’ writings are “tales”---that is, constructions---rather than objective reports or “mirrors,” to use Richard Rorty’s (Rorty, R. 1979. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.) term, of the external social world. Van Maanen writes there about ethnographies, but the point holds for social scientific (and scientific) writing in general. A text-used here in the sense of “the subject matter of a discourse” and not “textbook”---ethnographic or otherwise, is a means of (re)presentation.

Date: 1995
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