An essential guide for academics and researchers needing to look at alternative discourse analysis strategies.
As a research tool, narrative methods have become increasingly useful in organization studies, where much research
involves the interpretation of "stories" in some form. This methodology can be applied where qualitative
story analyses can help to assess interview, newspaper or web document stories for research projects. In this book,
Boje sets out eight analysis options that can deal with storytelling, recognizing that stories in organizations
can be self-destructing, flowing, networking and not at all static. In so doing, he shows ways in which narrative
methods can be supplemented by "anti-narrative" methods, where fragmented and collective storytelling
can be interpreted. A valuable resource that will be widely used in organizational or communications research,
for graduate level qualitative methods seminars and by researchers wanting to do story analysis.