Narrow Results

I started this call for chapters because I wanted to know how business storytelling communication can bring the body back into the organization. This was important because Boje, in 1996, asserted that “Organizational Theory privileged a framework in which an organization is a bounded system that dismisses its organic components and denies the environment to which it is bound and focuses primarily on the organizations’ role in organization communication structure, cultural manipulation, and emotional control of its organic components.” This level of organizational control effected the exclusion of bodies and perpetuated the disempowerment of the organics’ role in organizational creation. Business storytelling communication is that space for social symbolic work that brings the symbolic objects of the organization, the human, and the natural environment into a dialogical relationship (Boje, 1996; Lawrence & Phillips, 2019; Freire, 1970).