70 plus Antenarrative Publications

Welcome to the Antenarrative Website

This website is dedicated to the study and exploration of antenarrative - the fragmented, non-linear, and complex ways in which organizational stories emerge and evolve before they become coherent narratives. Antenarratives are the SEEDS of pre-story and pre-narrative (See short YouTube video).

Key Concepts:

• Beneath-antenarrative: The underlying forces shaping organizational pre-narratives
• Before-antenarrative: The pre-story state of retrospective sensemaking of organizational experience
• Bet-antenarrrative: The bets on the future (ante-up in poker), prospective sensemaking
  
• Being-antenarrative - The spacetimemattering of vibrant mattering
• Becoming-antenarrative: The emergent nature of organizational storytelling
• Between-antenarrative: The spaces where multiple stories intersect in Tamra-Land
  
• Beyond-antenarrative: The aliveness of the unexplored cosmos, the planet, and all species. Beyond is posthumanist.
  

Recent Publications

Explore the latest research and thinking in antenarrative theory and methodology. Our work spans organizational studies, storytelling, and narrative analysis.  The Boje, D. M. & Saylors, R. (2024). The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy: Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path. Taylor & Francis,  is most uptodate treatment of antenarratives, the seeds of storytelling. There are a myriad of antenarrative storytelling process studies (over 70), but surprisingly very few are situated to contribute to the studies of haute cuisine innovation. For example, just four antenarrative storytelling process studies have been applied to haute cuisine (Stierand et al., 2019; Bouty, Gomez, & Stierand, 2018; Feuls et al.,2019). Only studies (Boje, Haley & Saylors, 2016) applied antenarrative storytelling to fast food, and only four studies applied antenarrative processes to entrepreneurship (Verduyn & Jansen, 2005; Saylors, 2012; Saylors, Boje, & Mueller, 2014; Phillips, Moore & Rutherford, 20205, in press).

 Here is the list of 70 plus Antenarrative  publications

 

1.        Agar, Michael. (2005). Telling it like you think it might be. E:CO Issue Vol. 7 Nos. 3-4 2005 pp. 23-34. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Agar-3/publication/255012946_Telling_it_like_you_think_it_might_be_Narrative_linguistic_anthropology_and_the_complex_organization/links/53f7c30b0cf2823e5bdbd5b7/Telling-it-like-you-think-it-might-be-Narrative-linguistic-anthropology-and-the-complex-organization.pdf

 

2.        Alexander, J. J., & Edenfield, A. C. (2024). Erased by Design: An Antenarrative of Ellenton and the Savannah River Plant. Technical Communication, 71(1), 7-19.

 

3.        Anderson, R. B. (2019). Challenging a Culture of Secrecy: 217Investigating the Emergence of Antenarrative Storytelling in Community Responses to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. In Networking Argument (pp. 217-223). Routledge.

 

4.        Auvinen, T., Sajasalo, P., Sintonen, T., Takala, T., & Järvenpää, M. (2018). Antenarratives in Ongoing Strategic Change: Using the Story Index to Capture Daunting and Optimistic Futures. In H. Krämer, & M. Wenzel (Eds.), How Organizations Manage the Future: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights (pp. 133-151). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74506-0_7 

 

5.        Barge, J. Kevin. "Antenarrative and managerial practice." Communication Studies 55.1 (2004): 106-127.

 

6.        Betts, T., Hintz, E. A., & Buzzanell, P. M. (2022). Emplotting anticipatory resilience: An antenarrative extension of the communication theory of resilience. Communication Monographs, 89(2), 211-234.

 

7.        Blum, V., & Gumb, B. (2016). Antenarrative and financial communication: lessons from the Areva/UraMin operation. Comptabilite-Controle-Audit, 22(2), 77-107.

 

8.        Boje, D.M. (2001). Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research. London: Sage.

 

9.        Boje, D. M. (2007). The antenarrative turn in narrative studies. Communicative practices in workplaces and the professions: Cultural perspectives on the regulation of discourse and organizations, 219-237.

 

10.  Boje, D. M. (2011). Introduction to agential antenarratives that shape the future of organizations. In Storytelling and the Future of Organizations (pp. 1-19). Routledge.

 

11.  Boje, D. M. (2012). Reflections: What does quantum physics of storytelling mean for change management? Journal of Change Management, 12(3), 253-271.

 

12.  Boje, D. M. (2024). True Storytelling Antenarrative-Processes and the Existential-Ethics Turn. In A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling Set 2: Methodologies and Big Data Analysis of Business Storytelling Volume 1: Business True Storytelling (pp. 43-58).

 

13.  Boje, D., Cast, M., & Saylors, R. (2014). Liquid times for the entrepreneurial identity non-profit organization. In Liquid Organization (pp. 140-152). Routledge.

 

14.  Boje, D. M., Haley, U. C., & Saylors, R. (2016). Antenarratives of organizational change: The microstoria of Burger King’s storytelling in space, time and strategic context. human relations, 69(2), 391-418.

 

15.  Boje, D. M., Helmuth, C. A., & Saylors, R. (2013). Cameo: Spinning authentic leadership living stories of the self. In Authentic Leadership (pp. 271-278). Edward Elgar Publishing.

 

16.  Boje, D. M., & Henderson, T. L. (Eds.). (2014). Being quantum: Ontological storytelling in the age of antenarrative. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 

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

 

18.  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.

 

19.  Boje, D. M., & Saylors, R. (2015). The future of history. The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History, 197-206. 

 

20.  Boje, D. M. & Saylors, R. (2024). The Management Thought of Louis R. Pondy: Reclaiming the Enthinkment Path. Taylor & Francis.

 

21.  Boje, D. M., Svane, M., & Gergerich, E. M. (2016). Counternarrative and antenarrative inquiry in two cross-cultural contexts. European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, 4(1), 55-84.

 

22.  Bouty, I., Gomez, M. L., & Stierand, M. (2018). The creative leadership practices of haute cuisine chefs. In Creative Leadership (pp. 156-170). Routledge.

 

23.  Connor, T., & Phelan, L. (2015). Antenarrative and transnational labour rights activism: Making sense of complexity and ambiguity in the interaction between global social movements and global corporations. Globalizations, 12(2), 149-163.

 

24.  Dalcher, D., & Drevin, L. (2004). Learning from information systems failures by using narrative and ante-narrative methods. South African Computer Journal, (33), 88-97.

 

25.  Dorpenyo, I. K. (2022). Local knowledge as illiterate rhetoric: An antenarrative approach to enacting socially just technical communication. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 52(3), 291-315.

 

26.  Feuls, M., Stierand, M. B., Dörfler, V., Boje, D. M., & Haley, U. C. (2019, September). Exploring practices of managing creativity: a qualitative meta-analysis of narratives from haute cuisine. In CINet 2019: 20th International Conference on Innovating in an Era of Continuous Disruption.

 

27.  Flora, J., Boje, D., & Ann, G. Rosile, Kenneth Hacker. (2016). Journal of Veterans Studies. Vol 1, No 1 Theoretical and Applied Review of Embodied Restorying for Post-Deployment Family. 

 

28.  Frandsen, S., Svane, M., & Maria Humle, D. (2023). Who is responsible—And for what? An antenarrative perspective on organizational members’ crisis sensemaking of responsibility during a corporate scandal. Human relations, pp. 1-23 00187267231205781.

29.  Fu, X. (2018). The ante-narrative on bronze wares and the Chinese narrative tradition. Neohelicon, 45, 191-212.

 

30.  Horvath, I., Beeler, B., & Bonnet, M. (2022). A storytelling interpretation of the socio-economic theory: Example of an intervention-research in a theater company. Revue de gestion des ressources humaines, (4), 3-19.

 

31.  Jones, Natasha N., Kristen R. Moore, and Rebecca Walton (2016). Disrupting the past to disrupt the future: An antenarrative of technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly 25, no. 4: 211-229.

 

32.  Jørgensen, K. M. (2009). Genealogies of Becoming: Antenarrative Inquiry in Organizations. Tamara: journal of critical postmodern organization science, 8(1), 32-47.

 

33.  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.

 

34.  Larsen, Jens. (2024). True Storytelling—A Philosophy of Life and an Ethical Change-management Method. In A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling Set 2: Methodologies and Big Data Analysis of Business Storytelling Volume 1: Business True Storytelling (pp. 1-16).

 

35.  Larsen, Jens; Boje, D. M.; Bruun, Lena.(2021). True Storytelling: Seven Principles for an Ethical and Sustainable Change-Management Strategy. London: Routledge.

 

36.  LeFebvre, L., & Blackburn, K. (2012). Choosing Emma’s ending: Exploring the intersection of small and big stories, antenarrative, and narrative. Narrative Inquiry, 22(2), 211-225

 

37.  Lueg, K., & Rennstam, J. (2023). How knowledge moves across social fields: A conceptual illustration of the antenarrative field of economic degrowth thinking. In Perspectives on Knowledge Communication (pp. 215-231). Routledge.

 

38.  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 and Language at Work, 5(1), 18-29

 

39.  Massoud, J. A., Boje, D. M., Capener, E., & Marcillo, M. (2019). Intertextual analysis of the BP Prudhoe Bay disaster: applying the 5 Bs of antenarrative. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 27(5), 1562-1577.

 

40.  Petersen, E. J., & Moeller, R. M. (2016). Using antenarrative to uncover systems of power in mid-20th century policies on marriage and maternity at IBM. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 46(3), 362-386.

 

41.  Petersen, E. J. (2020). Women’s lived experience as authority: Antenarratives and interactional power as tools for engagement. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 53(1), 47-74.

 

42.  Phillips, D., Moore, C. B., & Rutherford, M. W. (2025, in press). Legitimating language and emotional tone in antenarratives: A cultural entrepreneurship perspective. Journal of Business Research, 186, 114988. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296324004922?casa_token=Wz_Wpra3fz0AAAAA:S3OMQ1Zxi0Q-bAiZLaX8td9zbhyVWrrdwwqBNiiFQOUx5gX57FmzsAzmPepye66rRjHTK4YCW7qt

 

43.  Poudel, D. (2019). Making Sense or Betting on the Future?: Identifying Antenarratives of AI projects in a Large Financial Organization. Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies, 24(2): 20-33.http://ejbo.jyu.fi/pdf/ejbo_vol24_no2_pages_20-33.pdf

44.  Rosile, G. A., & Boardman, C. (2011). Antenarrative ethics of native American Indian trading. 2011 Proceedings 20 Years of Storytelling and sc’MOI: A Celebration, 180-. 

 

45.  Rosile, G. A., Boje, D. M., Carlon, D. M., Downs, A., & Saylors, R. (2013). Storytelling diamond: An antenarrative integration of the six facets of storytelling in organization research design. Organizational Research Methods, 16(4), 557-580.

 

46.  Rosile, G. A., M Boje, D., & Claw, C. M. (2018). Ensemble leadership theory: Collectivist, relational, and heterarchical roots from indigenous contexts. Leadership, 14(3), 307-328.

 

47.  Sandham, S., & Fuller, G. (2020). The ‘Damore Memo’: what is the value of antenarrative in organizational communication? Continuum, 34(3), 431-447.

 

48.  Saylors, Jillian. (2018). Revealing Antenarratives in the Autism of Quantum Storytelling. In The Emerald Handbook of Quantum Storytelling Consulting (pp. 99-111). Emerald Publishing Limited.

 

49.  Saylors, R. (2012, July). The Antenarrative of Illicit Market Entrepreneurs an Auto-Ethnography of Metanoia Experiences. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2012, No. 1, p. 16934). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management.

 

50.  Saylors, R., Boje, D. M., & Mueller, T. J. (2014). Entrepreneurial Storytelling in Moments of Friendship: Antenarratives of business plans, risk taking, and venture capital narratives. Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 12(4): 3-15. https://journals.kozminski.edu.pl/pl/system/files/395-1387-1-PB.pdf

 

51.  Seloti, S. L., & Alves, M. A. (2011). Antenarratives, Strategic Alliances, and Sensemaking: Engagement and Divorce Without Marriage Between Two Brazilian Air Carrier Firms. In Storytelling and the future of organizations (pp. 176-187). Routledge. 

 

52.  Shufutinsky, A., & Burrell, D. N. (2024). Storytelling When the Source of the Story Is Unavailable: The Multi-Bystander Interpretive Storytelling Approach. In A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling Set 2: Methodologies and Big Data Analysis of Business Storytelling Volume 5: Business Storytelling and Grounding Methodology (pp. 79-115)

 

53.  Shufutinsky, A., Svane, M. S., & Boje, D. M. (2024). Introduction to Grounding Methodology in Business Storytelling. In A World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Storytelling Set 2: Methodologies and Big Data Analysis of Business Storytelling Volume 5: Business Storytelling and Grounding Methodology (pp. 1-11). https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789811280962_0001

 

54.  Sliwa, M., & Cairns, G. (2007). Exploring narratives and antenarratives of graffiti artists: beyond dichotomies of commitment and detachment. Culture and Organization, 13(1), 73-82.

 

55.  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. https://davidboje.com/vita/paper_pdfs/Sparre%20and%20Boje-edited.pdf

 

56.  Stierand, M., Boje, D. M., Glăveanu, V., Dörfler, V., Haley, U. C., & Feuls, M. (2019). Paradoxes of “creativity”: Examining the creative process through an antenarrative lens. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 53(2), 165-170.

 

57.  Svane, M., Gergerich, E., & Boje, D. M. (2016). Fractal change management and counter-narrative in cross-cultural change. In Counter-narratives and organization (pp. 129-154). Routledge.

 

58.  Strand, Anete M. C. (2012). Enacting the Between. On dis/continuous intra-active becoming of/through an Apparatus of Material Storytelling. Book 2:'How to build an Oasis with a good conscience'-organizational becoming through an Apparatus of Material Storytelling. https://vbn.aau.dk/files/229677225/Entangling_Organizations_paper_Anete_Strand_1312_2015.pdf

 

59.  Svane, M. (2019). Antenarratives and Heteroglossia in Organizational Storytelling: A Living Medium Shaping the Future of Organizations in the Quantum Age. Communication & Language at Work, 6(1), 63-77.

 

60.  Tyler, J. A. (2011). Living story and antenarrative in organizational accidents. In Storytelling and the Future of Organizations (pp. 137-147). Routledge.

 

61.  Tyler, J. A., & Swartz, A. L. (2012). Storytelling and transformative learning. The Handbook of transformative learning: Theory, research, and practice, 455-470

 

62.  Vaara, E., Sonenshein, S., & Boje, D. (2016). Narratives as sources of stability and change in organizations: Approaches and directions for future research. Academy of Management Annals, 10 (1), 495-560. http://ereserve.library.utah.edu/Annual/MGT/7810/Diekmann/narratives.pdf

 

63.  Vaara, E., & Tienari, J. (2011). On the narrative construction of multinational corporations: An antenarrative analysis of legitimation and resistance in a cross-border merger. Organization science, 22(2), 370-390.

 

64.  Van Hilten, A., & Ruel, S. (2024). The Chihuahua and the space princess writing in the margins: Antenarratives of two (older) women early career academics. Gender, Work & Organization, 31(5), 2066-2094.

 

65.  Verduyn, K., & Jansen, P. (2005). Entrepreneurial myths. using biographies and (Ante) narrative research methods in entrepreneurship education. International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, 3(3), 229-244.

 

66.  Vickers, M. H. (2005). Illness, work and organization: Postmodern perspectives, antenarratives and chaos narratives for the reinstatement of voice. Tamara Journal of Critical Organisation Inquiry, 3(2), 74.

 

67.  Wakefield, T. H. (2012). Beyond social constructionism: ontological antenarratives. Pp. 173-182 in Bente Nørgaard (ed.) Beyond Sensemaking and Social Constructivist-Narrative. Accessed Jun 23 2021 at https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/60531149.pdf#page=178

 

68.  Wan, R. (2014). An Investigation on the Antenarrative in Ancient Chinese Novels. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 34(2), 66-75.

 

69.  Weick, K. E. (2012). Organized sensemaking: A commentary on processes of interpretive work. Human Relations, 65(1), 141-153. Accessed Jun 23 2021 at https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.995.5541&rep=rep1&type=pdf

70.  Wolgemuth, J. R. (2014). Analyzing for critical resistance in narrative research. Qualitative Research, 14(5), 586-602.

 

71.  Yolles, M. (2007). The dynamics of narrative and antenarrative and their relation to story.