Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 33 Issue 4

Editorial

Slawomir Jan Magala

Managing meanings, coaching virtues and mediating rhetoric: Revisiting the role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and practice

Kris Rutten, Marja Flory

The purpose of this article is to present and revisit the role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and practice.

Narratives: the rhetoric of intentional action

Eduard Bonet

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to clarify that narratives have a rhetorical dimension, whose study has to be considered an important part of rhetoric (this claim is…

The emergence of sensemaking through socio-material practices

Noora Jansson, Nina Lunkka, Marjo Suhonen, Merja Meriläinen, Heikki Wiik

The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of how sensemaking occurs as a holistic, processual phenomenon during an organisational change.

Online company blogs as narrations of plural leadership

Arja Ropo, Elina I. Mäkinen, Inka Seppä

The purpose of this paper is to examine how companies that characterise their leadership style as plural, shared or distributed narrate their actions and practices in online blog…

Innocent source of humanity

Kyrill Goosseff

To identify the Transcendental Essence of Humanity, the purpose of this paper is to describe in brief what kind of research became possible when the theory of, e.g. autopoiesis…

Prosperity over time and across generations: the role of values and virtues in family businesses

Maria Jose Parada, Georges Samara, Alexandra Dawson, Eduard Bonet

Despite the great importance attributed to values in the family business, few studies have focused on their importance and on how such values influence the way family businesses…

More complex images of women at work are needed: a fictive example of Petra Delicado

Barbara Czarniawska

The purpose of this paper is to convince the readers that more complex images of working women are needed, and that fiction may provide them.