Originally published as Journal of Organizational Change Management, volume 21, issue 5

Guest editors: Hugo Letiche, Robert v Boeschoten and Sanjev Dugal

ISSN/ISBN: 0953-4814

This special issue provides a critical discussion of storytelling. Storytelling has often been portrayed as inherently critical - as if the stories of organizational participants are intrinsically authentic and authenticity is innately ethically superior. But is this so? In this special issue, the choice for immediacy, direct involvement, and authenticity via story-telling is repeatedly introduced, but the authors question the epistemological possibility of achieving any such thing, as well as the social barriers to its realization. The ideal of story-telling is still there, but the confidence that sense-making via stories can achieve the (assumed) goals, is severely doubted.

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Contents list

Introduction
Hugo Letiche, Robert v Boeschoten & Sanjev Dugal

Coaching can be storyselling: Creating change through crises of confidence
Cheryl Lapp & Adrian Carr

Beyond the Hegemonic Narrative - A Study of Managers
David Vickers

Storytellers And Their Discursive Strategies In A Post-Acquisition Process
Ruth Steuer & Thomas Wood

I am not your hero: Change Management and Culture Shocks in a Public Sector Corporation
Yannick Fronda & Jean-Luc Moriceau

Living among stories: everyday life at a South western bank
Anna Linda Musacchio Adorisio

Leading Adaptive Organizational Change: Self-reflexivity and Self-transformation
Matthew Eriksen

Workplace Learning: Narrative and Professionalization
Hugo Letiche, Robert v Boeschoten & Frank de Jong

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About the Journal of Organizational Change Management

The goal of the journal is to provide alternative philosophies for organizational change and development by encouraging:

• The exploration of philosophies including; critical theory, postmodernism and poststructuralism as they apply to change and development;
• Qualitative analyses of change, discourse and change practices;
• Interdisciplinary approaches such as organization and ecology, consumption and production and rhetorics and theatrics of change and development;
• Articles which tie into, or disagree with, themes from prior issues.

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