TY - BOOK ID - 9988339 TI - Writing organization PY - 2001 SN - 1588110710 9027233047 9786612162633 1282162632 902729836X 9789027298362 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Linguistics / General KW - Business report writing. KW - Research KW - Organization. KW - Methodology. KW - Organisation KW - Management KW - Business writing KW - Report writing UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9988339 AB - Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research. To explore this, the book reports a research project in the area of organisational storytelling that investigates how people in one organisation used stories to (re)present their own learning experiences from the implementation of a quality management program. This research is written in three principal genres: autobiography, ethnography and a fictional short story. These (re)presentational strategies are reviewed to examine how different genres effect authority in different ways. Drawing extensively on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and on writers associated with postmodernism and poststructuralism, the book offers a challenging discussion of what organisational research might be when the notion of the equivalence of reality and representation is radically questioned. ER -