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List of contents
1. Introduction Michal Izak, Linda Hitchin and David Anderson Part I: The Silence, Subconscious, Meaning and Narrative: The Ecologies of Untold 2. Storying as the Meaning, and the Evasion, of Life: Reflections on When Stories Might Be Better Left Untold David Sims 3. Dr Harry Goes to Grantham: A Momentary Perspective on Narrative Construction, Omission & Interpretation David Rae 4. Hidden Truths: Using Literature to Explore the Untold Stories of the Corporate Subconscious Angela Lait 5. Marketing Beyond Seduction: Androgyny and the Untold Tale of Socially Responsible Advertising Jerzy Kociatkiewicz and Monika Kostera Part II:Untold Stories on the Social and Political Agenda 6. A Telling Silence: Beckett, Kafka and the Experience of Being Unemployed Tom Boland and Ray Griffin 7. Stories Gone Cold: An Analysis of Untold Organizational Stories Among Reference Librarians Mónica Colón-Aguirre 8. Story-Spaces and Transformation: The Caravan Project Maria Daskalaki, Alexandra Saliba, Stratis Vogiatzis, and Thekla Malamou 9. ‘I just want a job’: The Untold Stories of Entrepreneurship Lucia Garcia-Lorenzo, Lucia Sell-Trujillo, and Paul Donnelly 10. Aquifer Analysis: Told and Untold Stories in Warwick Churches Vaughan S. Roberts 11. How Stories Make It: Antenarrative, Graffiti and Dead Calves Gillian Hopkinson Part III: Untold Story and Methodology 12. Method and Story Fragments: Working Through Untold Method Linda Hitchin 13. Afterward: Untold Story Futures Linda Hitchin, Michal Izak and David Anderson
About the author
Michał Izak, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Management at University of Lincoln, UK. His research interests include emerging organizational discourses, Critical Management Studies, fiction as a reflection of organizational dynamics and organizational storytelling. He publishes regularly in peer reviewed journals and is a member of the editorial board of Organization Studies as well as a guest editor of forthcoming issues of Futures journal and Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry.
Linda Hitchin is a Principal Lecturer at University of Lincoln, UK, and a sociologist of science and technology. Her research interests include ethnographic methods, sociology of translation, sociomaterial studies and ontological politics of work.
David Anderson is a Lecturer in Management at University of Lincoln, UK. He has edited a special issue of Tamara Journal and is a reviewer for Journal of Management Education. His research interests include methodological anarchism, network studies, sociomateriality and relationality.
Summary
Untold Stories in Organizations makes an important contribution to the organizational storytelling research agenda. This edited collection offers a critical reflection on the politics which marginalise organizational realities.
