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The chapter introduces the book Transforming Organizations—Narrative and Story-Based Approaches.
Acknowledging the current sense of urgency to transform and adapt to the changing business environment and the social and technological developments, the chapter outlines the contribution of the emerging field of narrative work in organizations to rethink the approaches and tools organizations can use to enable change and transformation.
This emerging field of practice explores the potential of working with narratives and stories in the organizational field. Besides a general introduction, the chapter outlines the shared assumptions of the authors and provides a thematic overview to the contributions in the book.
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Chlopczyk, J., Erlach, C. (2019). The Narrative Approach to Transforming Organizations. In: Chlopczyk, J., Erlach, C. (eds) Transforming Organizations. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17851-2_1
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