A storytelling interpretation of the socio-economic theory

Une interprétation narrative de la théorie socio-économique

Isabelle Horvath (), Betty Beeler and Marc Bonnet ()
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Isabelle Horvath: CREGO - Centre de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UB - Université de Bourgogne - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] - UFC - Université de Franche-Comté - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE], Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar
Betty Beeler: GEM&L - Groupe d’Etudes en Management et Langage
Marc Bonnet: ISEOR - Institut de Socio-économie des Entreprises et des ORganisations - Institut de socio-économie des entreprises et des organisations, Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon

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Abstract: This paper is aimed at interpreting socio-economic organizational change phenomena through the lens of a storytelling approach. This approach calls for the mediation of competing stories in order to bring together diverging mindsets. A common practice in organizational storytelling is to select a few episodes that fit into a narrative meant to represent the protagonists' shared experience, but this approach often ignores the underlying social and economic dynamics within the firm. Our aim then is to show how the interweaving of story fragments produced by organizational actors at all echelons and departments of a firm during a socio-economic intervention provides a window into the messier reality of the workplace and opens up new spaces of organizational change inquiry. Drawing on Savall's socio-economic intervention-research methodology, Boje's antenarrative theory and Savall and Zardet's concept of "contradictory intersubjectivity", we demonstrate the way fieldnote quotes gathered during a socio-economic diagnosis at a theater company acted as story fragments called antenarratives, enabling the managers, actors and the theater staff to reconcile their respective visions of the theater's future and the role of each in that future.

Keywords: Organizational change; Storytelling; Antenarratives; Socio-economic approach to management; Theater management; Contradictory intersubjectivity; Approche socio-économique du management; Management du théâtre; Intersubjectivité contradictoire; Changement organisationnel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in Revue de Gestion des Ressources Humaines, 2022, N° 126 (4), pp.3-19. ⟨10.3917/grhu.126.0003⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/grhu.126.0003

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