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What is BUSINESS STORY CONVERSATIONS?

BUSINESS STORY CONVERSATIONS is an innovative methodology for exploring and analyzing organizational narratives through structured dialogue and collaborative storytelling. It emphasizes the co-creation of meaning through conversation and narrative exchange. More

PUBLICATIONS

Our first book on Conversational Storytelling Inquiry


Boje, D.,M. & Rosile, G. A. (2020). How to use conversational storytelling interviews for your dissertation. Edward Elgar Publishing.


Rosile, G. A. (Ed.). (2016). Tribal wisdom for business ethics. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

More Books

Boje, D. M. (2001). Narrative methods for organization and communication research. SAGE.
Boje, D. M. (2014). Storytelling organizational practices: Managing in the quantum age. Routledge.
Boje, D. M. (2017). The storytelling organization: A study of story performance in an office-supply firm. In The Aesthetic Turn in Management (pp. 211-231). Routledge.
Boje, D. M. (2018). Organizational research: Storytelling in action. Routledge.

Articles & Chapters

Adorisio, A. L. M., & Boje, D. M. (2008). Cowboy and Wild West Myths in Community and Franchise Banking of the Southwestern United States. Semantic and organizations: Myths, fantasms, unsaid and misunderstanding, published by l’Harmattan (France). Max Alain Guenette, series editor. Online version accessed June, 23, 2018.

Boje, D. M. (1995). STORIES OF THE STORYTELLING ORGANIZATION: A POSTMODERN ANALYSIS OF DISNEY AS" TAMARA-LAND". Academy of Management Journal, 38(4).

Boje, D. M. (2019). Stories of the storytelling organization: A postmodern analysis of Disney as “Tamara-Land”. In Postmodern management theory (pp. 421-459). Routledge.

Boje, D. M., Pelly, D., & Haley, U. (2023). Leading Ethical Organizational Leadership and Behavior Through True Storytelling: Towards Ethical Consulting to Guide Business Games. Organization Development Review, 55(3).

Boje, D., Pelly, R. D. M., Saylors, R., Saylors, J., & Trafimow, S. (2022). Implications of Tamara-Land consciousnesses discourses for organization culture studies. Discourses on Culture, 16(1), 101-123.

Boje, D. M., & Rosile, G. A. (2019). Conversational storytelling research methods: cats, dogs, and humans in pet capitalism. Communication Research and Practice, 5(4), 309-326.

Boje, D., & Rosile, G. A. (2020). Writing dialecticaldialogical and biglittle storytelling science conclusions. In How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation (pp. 114-136). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Boje, D. M., & Rosile, G. A. (2022). The storytelling science paradigm: Evoking the transformative power of indigenous ontological antenarratives in curious conversation. In Transcendent development: The ethics of universal dignity(pp. 15-42). Emerald Publishing Limited.

Jabri, M., Adrian, A. D., & Boje, D. (2008). Reconsidering the role of conversations in change communication: A contribution based on Bakhtin. Journal of organizational change management, 21(6), 667-685.

Jørgensen, K. M., & Boje, D. M. (2020). Storytelling sustainability in problem-based learning. Populism and higher education curriculum development: Problem based learning as a mitigating response, 369-391.

Jørgensen, K. M., Svane, M. S., & Boje, D. M. (2024). A “Terrestrial Ethics” of Storymaking for Sustainable Enterprise. In A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling Set 2: Methodologies and Big Data Analysis of Business Storytelling Volume 2: Business Storytelling and Sustainability (pp. 215-240).

Lundholt, M. W., & Boje, D. (2018). Understanding organizational narrative-counter-narratives dynamics: An overview of Communication Constitutes Organization (CCO) and Storytelling Organization Theory (SOT) approaches. Communication & Language at Work, 5(1), 18-29.

Rosile, G. A. (1999). Discourse from the horse’s mouth. https://web.nmsu.edu/~garosile/horsediscourse599.htm


Rosile, G. A. (2000). Managing with Ahimsa and horse sense. http://davidboje.com/horsesense//articles/jerryhorsechapter.html


Rosile, Grace Ann. (2021). Horse Sense at Work. In The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers (pp. 1495-1507). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Rosile, G. A., & Boje, D. M. (2003a). Comparison of socio-economic and other transorganizational development methods. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 16(1), 10–20. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534810310459738

Rosile, G. A., & Boje, D. M. (2003b). Theatrics of SEAM. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 16(1), 21–32. https://doi.org/10.1108/0953481031045974


Rosile, G. A., Boje, D. M., Carlton, D., Downs, A., & Saylors, R. (2013). Storytelling diamond: An integrative model of six facets of story, narrative, and antenarrative in organizational studies. Organization Research Methods, 16(4), 557–580. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428113482490


Rosile, G. A., Boje, D. M., & Claw, C. M. (2018). Ensemble leadership theory: Collectivist, relational, and heterarchical roots from indigenous contexts. Leadership, 14(3), 307–328. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715016652933.


Rosile, G. A., Boje, D. M., Herder, R. A., & Sanchez, M. (2020). The coalition of Immokalee workers uses ensemble storytelling processes to overcome enslavement in corporate supply chains. Business & Society, 60(2), 376–414. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650320930416.

Savall, A., Preston, J., Henderson, T., & Boje, D. (2024). How storytelling can make the difference between SEAM and other consulting approaches. In A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling Set 1: Corporate and Business Strategies of Business Storytelling Volume 5: Business Storytelling of Socioeconomics (pp. 183-199).

Sparre, M., & Boje, D. M. (2020). Utilizing participative action research with storytelling interventions to create sustainability in Danish farming. Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 38(4), 41-54.

Svane, M. S., & Boje, D. M. (2015). Tamara land fractal change management: In between managerialist narrative and polyphonic living stories. In Sc. MOI Conference.

Syed, J., & Boje, D. M. (2007). In praise of dialogue: Storytelling as a means of negotiated diversity management.

Taylor, K., Durant, R., & Boje, D. (2020). Telling the Story, Hearing the Story. Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric, 93.

Storytelling is already Conversational
Conversational Storytelling is already Inquiry


David Michael Boje

Pioneer in Conversational  storytelling Inquiry

Grace Ann Rosile

Pioneer in Conversational Storytelling training

Conversational

Emphasizes dialogue and interactive exchange between participants

Storytelling

Uses storytelling as a primary tool for understanding organizational experience

Inquiry

Employs systematic investigation through collaborative exploration

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