Work as Craft Mindset: Building Narratives in Organisational Change

Tricia Cleland Silva () and Paulo de Tarso Fonseca Silva ()
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Tricia Cleland Silva: Hanken School of Economics
Paulo de Tarso Fonseca Silva: Metaphora International

Chapter Chapter 3 in Making Sense of Work Through Collaborative Storytelling, 2022, pp 27-46 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Storytelling is a craft. In this chapter, we explain why a work as craft mindsetwork as craft mindset is essential to Collaborative StorytellingCollaborative Storytelling to make sense of work and to build narratives in organisational change. In particular, we discuss how storytelling is not only for an external audience but also a representation of who we are, what we do, and how we make sense of our relationships and environments. At the end of the chapter, we suggest Collaborative Storytelling Activity SystemCollaborative Storytelling Activity System as a way to approach work activity systems in a cultural historical context.

Keywords: Activity systems; Cultural historical activity theoryCultural Historical Activity Theory; Collaboration; Craft; Materiality; Organisational change; Storytelling; Sustainability; Tacit knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89446-7_3

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