STORYTELLING PARADIGM MENU (click on cell to see pdf contents) or click here for PowerPoint download version
Theories Annotated Deeper into 4 D's	Ensemble Leadership Storytelling	Antenarrative Prospective Sensemaking	4th Wave Grounded Theory
		Quantum Storytelling	Narrative- Counternarrative
Methodologies	Self-correcting Induction	Qualimetric	Storytelling Multiplicities Analysis
		Ethnostatistics
		Critical Accounting
Interventions	True Storytelling	Socio-Economic Storytelling	Embodied Restorying Process
		Critical Accounts

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Smith, W. I; Gardner, C; & Boje, D. M. (2004). Using the Ethnostatistics Methodology to reconcile rhetoric and reality: An examination of the management release of Enron's year end 2000 results. Qualitative Research In Accounting & Management. vol 1 (2): 1-16.  https://davidboje.com/vita/paper_pdfs/ethnoenron-qram2004.pdf

HOW TO CITE THIS ESSAY: The 2019 Cabrini Seminar by Boje & Rosile: Doing storytelling science for your dissertation

website https://davidboje.com/cabrini

What is a Storytelling Paradigm?

What is the best storytelling article ever written.

• Benjamin, Walter (2007/1986). The Storyteller” Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov. Pp. 361-378 in Hannah Arendt (ed.) Illuminations. Translated from the German (1955) into English (1968) by Harry Zohn. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. Storyteller essay is available online 2007, pp. 83-110 with Preface by Leon Weiseltier; Benjaminian hypothesis: ‘true’ storytelling is coming to an end, and is not just dialectical historical materialism, but rather is also the Baudelairean “multiplicity of life and the flickering grace of all the elements of life” in the “shocks and conflicts of civilization: (Benjamin, 1999/2002: 443). This “unscrupulous multiplicity” ... https://masculinisation.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/benjamin-walter-e28093-illuminations.pdf




• Two Main books for 2019 Cabrini cohort seminar
  

  (written based on 2017 seminar and following seminars we developed around the world) -->Boje, D. M. (2019b). Organizational Research: Storytelling In Action. London/NY: Routledge has the ways of developing 4th wave grounded theory,
  AND
  Boje, D. M.; Rosile, G. A. (in press). How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
  Download for free until published in 2020
  which has the beginnings of a storytelling science of self-correcting 'Abduction-Induction-Deduction'.

PART II: What are some Practical Approaches to Storytelling?

There are many directions to take a storytelling dissertation. Here are seven for you to consider that have practical implications. Let's start with the 6 B's of Antenarrating (see above). 



1. ANTENARRATIVE PROSPECTIVE SENSEMAKING THEORY: You can use the 6B's of Antenarrative.  Each B is a process and a force of multiplicity (each its own kind of fractality) in the mulitfractal. The four directions: North Star Point of ABSTRACTING, the South Star Points of GROUNDING, the West Star Points of Rehistoricizing, and the  East Star Points of FUTURING. The Antenarrative Star Points and those Compass Directions of the many Ensembles of Multiplicities, are a way to remember the processes pre-constitutive of both narrative and story.



Example of Antenarrative 6 B's: Expectant Parents Planning  in Advance to Have a Baby

1. BEFORE:  As expectant parents you make plans in preparation for the baby. You begin to change your life style as a couple. You move in together, maybe get married, take some classes together as parents.  Have a baby shower. Tell your parents. Choose mediacal support. PLan type of birth experience.  File for maternity leave. You are actually making a new history, a new chapter in that history.
   
2. BENEATH: As a couple you begin to learn the language of parenting, and start choosing names. You notice you are speaking baby talk to the fetus. There are societal narratives of what mother and father do in parenthood. Society expects partents to marry, and before childbirth. There is a great deal of pressure for women to become mothers. Each society hasits unrealistic and idealized ways of pregnancy and motherhood. There is societal pressure for mom not to work, but to want to work. New pressures on dad to take time off for maternity care, and guilt to provide more income for growing family. There are unrealistic societal expectations for regaining shape of the body immediatley after delivery (body shaming). Society divided on whether pregnant moms can exercise, be sexy, keep working, and so on. If dad cheats, is it mom's fault? There are character roles and identities for mother and father. Its all pre-scripted narrative and it beckons you to parenthood.
3. BETS ON THE FUTURE: You begin talking to the baby in the womb. One of you says 'be a lawyer.' The other, 'no not that, be a doctor.' There are different futures possible, and you can plan for one of them, in advance, making your bet on it. Do you share child rearing? Who works? Who gets work leave? As a couple you start to look at colleges, and what it costs for tuition.  There are bets onbreast-feeding versus bottle-feeding risks.
   
4. BECOMING: You are becoming a family, within a society that expects you to exhibit an ethic of care. Different societies have different ethics of care. Is the responsibility for caring, divided equally between the parents? There are many single parents in nontraditional families. Socio-cultural expectations for expectant fathers and mothers are changing. Fathers are expected to be present in the child's life, to be involved in child-rearing.
   
5. BETWEEN: Set up the infrastrcture by baby proofing the house, moving knives and chemicals out of reach, putting pantry locks in place, and those electirc outlet safety covers. Paint the room, buy a crib, bassinet. How are household tasks going to be divided between the parents?
   
6. BEYOND: You have intuition. As a mother you can feel the embodiemnt, the life growing within you. But are you always 'glowing' with pregnancy, or do you have morning sickness, abdominal cramps, dizziness, bladder pressure, backaches, and fatigue? But is mothering innately intuitive to all mothers? As a father, you can put your hand on the mother's tummy, and feel the kicking and squirming. You notice the fetus reacts to sounds, to changes in mood. The mother has cravings and father runs to the store. Some body changes beyond delivery will always remain: stretch marks and surgery scars. It can take a long time to get a woman's shape back. 11 to 50% of men experience symptoms of sympathetic pregnancy. Men aan also experience hormonal changes towards the end of the pregnancy. The so-called 'cuddle chemical', oxytocin, can alo increase in new dads and this too seems to relate to paternal behavior, liklihood of playing with the child. And playing with the child and cuddling them even in the womb can increase oxytocin. Has something to do with 25% being candidates for post-natal depression.
   

Those Bets on the Future (FUTURING star point #3) mean every bet has a different pathway. Let's look at Bill Sharpe's (2013) Three Horizons, giving them some new storytelling foreconcepts, of course.

Sharpe, Bill. (2013). Three Horizons. Triarchy Press.

• On the Red Horizon (#1) is Business-As-Usual but we know over time, our production habits and our consumer life styles will be changing quite radically. The Red Horizon (#1) is holding on to status quo, even though we are past peak water and peak oil. 

• The Green Horizon of 'Little Wow Moments' (#3), promises a multispecies storytelling (Haraway, 2016) with a Green New Deal. and the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals actually working. The Green Horizon (#3) means lots of storytelling transformations (y-axis) will happen in time (x-axis) by the year 2130, more by 2150, if we are to avert the many extinctions of the 6th Extinction now under way (Boje, 2019a) because 'There is No Planet B' to go to to get our depleting forests, marine life, land life, clean freshwater, and so on.

• Horizon of 'Disruptive Innovations' is happening along the dotted lines of technologies being invented to help or hinder the Red or Green horizons, as the case for enterpreneuring may be.

2. Fractal Nested Loops: Our storytelling is nested. We live in stories within stories, and struggle with narratives within narratives that want to own us. The nesting of stories and narratives forms various fractals. A fractal is defined as sameness across different scalability loops. A fractal is a repeating pattern. This next example is from David Boje's living stories. We dam the rivers and wonder why there are fewer fish and why a tribe like the Spokane Indians could no longer survive. One living story interrupts another, in a storytelling of aliveness. It is one of the Grounding ways of Antenarrative processes. Of course, it has a nested way, of a family story, nested in a place (Spokane River) and nested in western colonial expansion that has a message nested about how a whole system deteriorates when you don't understand multispecies storytelling (how one specie affects another).

3. Aristotle Narrative Poetics for over two millennia has been a way to tell a western narrative, and is still a very popular way, with some initial exposition, then rising action, the climax of the plot, followed by falling action, and Denouement (explaining the movie ending to those who did not get it).  Some call this climbing the mountain, getting to its peak (the climax) and then the falling action (coming down the mountain).

 

For Aristotle (350BCE) a narrative was a matter of Abstracting a Beginning-Middle-End into a Plot, and plot was first and most important of six elements of narrative. Now a days the last element, Spectacle is most important (the fireworks and action explosions) of American movies and advertising.

Kenneth Burke (1945) relabeled narrative into five elements by combining Aristotle's theme and rhythm into Agency.  More reductionism, and it takes us further away from any Grounding at all. Grounding is all about the wholeness of live, how the complex living systems of life are a part of our existence.

4. Joseph Campbell's MONOMYTH OF THE Hero's Journey: It is another example of Abstracting, of a reductionism of life forces, living stories,  and living systems into a simplified narrative structure, a circle of predictable elements. It is very popular, but beware of a part taken to be the whole of storytelling. It is a good technique to use instead of PowerPoint. Just begin with your call to adventure, pretend a refusal of the call, tell how your found a mentor, then cross the threshold to non-ordinary world, trials of doing a dissertation, find your own Boon, in the abyss of analysis paralysis, you are changed forever, then return to defend your dissertation, while wondering what is life all about.

5. Henri Savall's Socioeconomic Approach to Management (SEAM): SEAM is an example of FUTURING, of doing the grunt work to listen to, transcribe, and code lots of stories of of Dysfunctions, Structures, Behaviors, and Hidden Costs that all need to change, if a new futuring pathway is to be find to develop a functional organization that is Grounding in a Socially Responsible Capitalism. Grace Ann and I have learned and taught SEAM approach of storytelling interventions for over twenty years. See Savall, H., & Zardet, V. (Eds.). (2011: 18-22). The qualimetrics approach: Observing the complex object. IAP. for their treatment of Abduction-Induction-Deduction in Qualimetrics (the interplay of qualitative with quantitative and financial metrics).

6. Ensemble Storytelling: It began with Ensemble Leadership Theory (ELT) by Rosile, Boje, & Claw (2018) in Leadership Journal, then took a turn to Ensemble Storytelling (Rosile, Boje, Sanchez, & Herder, in press 2019) in Business and Society Journal, and now we are situating it as a way of researching Worker-Driven Corporate Social Responsibility (WD-CSR).

7. Tamara-Land. I went to a play called Tamara by John Kriznac, then wrote a journal article (Boje 1995) in Academy of Management Journal. There are many 'untold stories' (Hitchin, 2015) in Tamara-Land (in every organization & in every Business School).

Boje, D. M. (1995). Stories of the storytelling organization: A postmodern analysis of Disney as “Tamara-Land”. Academy of Management journal, 38(4), 997-1035.
Hitchin, Linda. (2015). Method and Story Fragments.  Pp. 213-238 in Izak, M., Hitchin, L., & Anderson, D. (Eds.) Untold stories in organizations.  London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).

In Rehistoricizing the multiplicities of story fragments, many possible co-existing pasts are selectable in Tamara-Land.

That gives you 7 ways of doing storytelling with some visuals to help you remember them. Next we turn to using them in your dissertation.

PART III: What is 'storytelling science'?

For your dissertation research begin your research question by asking 6 B-questions of Answerability?

It is possible to develop a new ethical foundation for Business Schools of the future, one with a spirit of ecosacred, spiritual ecology, a relation between spirit and world (Gaia). This is our project in Germany with Kenneth and Jens and Anete (see https://davidboje.com/Gaia).

Begin by forming your 'research question' as an Abductive hypothesis that you then do research tests of Inquiry that prompt changes in your theory Deductions. What is your Abductive-Inductive-Deductive 'storytelling science' of self-correcting in your Dissertation?

What is your Abductive-Inductive-Deductive  (AID) 'storytelling science' of self-correcting in your Dissertation? AID is a triadic from work of CHarles sanders Peirce. To see it applied in interventions of change management, see work by Henri Savall and Veronique Zardet (2011: 18-22) and this modelization of the self-correcting process (p. 108).



Begin by forming your 'research question' as an Abductive hypothesis that you then do research tests of Inquiry that prompt changes in your theory Deductions. Develop the phases of your research inquiry into your question, and refute the AID at each phase, so you have revised Abductions, new Inductions to explore, and come up with different Deductions to test with more Inductions.



The self-correcting phases conduct various inductive tests that realize deductive theory corrections and corrections to abductive propositions (or hypotheses). This next image is an example of self-correcting 'storytelling science' method from our three year study of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (Rosile, Boje, Sanchez, & Herder, in press 2019).

Rosile, Grace Ann; Boje, David M.’ Herder, Rick; Sanchez, Rick. (2019, in press).  The Coalition of Immokalee Workers uses Ensemble Storytelling Processes to Overcome Enslavement in Corporate Supply Chains. This is earlier draft of article accepted by Business and Society Journal, July 2019. Click here for PDF draft version.

Boje, David M.; Rosile, Grace Ann. (2019). 'Conversational Storytelling Research Methods: Cats, Dogs, and Humans in Pet Capitalism. Communication Research and Practice journal. Accepted Oct 9, 2019. Click here for pre-publication PDF.

For another example, please see
Boje, David M.; Rosile, Grace Ann. (2019). 'Conversational Storytelling Research Methods: Cats, Dogs, and Humans in Pet Capitalism. Communication Research and Practice journal. Accepted Oct 9, 2019. Click here for pre-publication PDF.

Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). We began the CIW pre study with an Ensemble Leadership Theory (accepted 2016, finally in print in 2018: Rosile, Grace Ann; Boje, David M.; Claw, Carma. (2018). “Ensemble Leadership Theory: Collectivist, Relational, and Heterarchical Roots from Indigenous Contexts.” Leadership journal, Vol. 14(3) 307–328.  CLICK HERE for online prepublication draft, or here for PDF from Sage We then used self-correcting method to change the auxiliary assumptions (Trafimow, 2012) that we applied in the Inductive Tests (autoethnogrpahies, participant observation, conversational interviews, archival studies, etc.).

Trafimow, David. (2012). The role of auxiliary assumptions for the validity of manipulations and measures. Theory & Psychology, 22(4), 486-498. He shows the importance of auxiliary assumptions in theory testing. We do not test all auxiliary assumptions at once. We select some to test in each phase, learn from that, and selt new one to investigate.  It is important to try to falsify (& refute) the theories we deduce, and the abductive hypotheses we put forth. Otherwise, we are only doing verification without refutation, and that is a major inductive fallacy that plagued the first three waves of Grounded Theory.

Trafimow, David. (2017). “Implications of an initial empirical victory for the truth of the theory and additional empirical victories.” Philosophical Psychology, 30 (4): 415-437.

“A prediction is not derived solely on the basis of a theory but rather from the combination of a theory and assumptions that are not part of the theory” (Trafimow, 2017: 216).

“These assumptions are often termed auxiliary hypotheses or auxiliary assumptions. I will use auxiliary assumptions so as to include what some philosophers considered to be ‘initial conditions’ … as well as assumptions that link nonobservational terms in theories with observational terms in empirical hypotheses (e.g., Trafimow & Uhalt, 2015)” (Trafimow, 2017: 216).

As you do the AID cycles phases-by-phase, you can also address the as yet untested auxiliary assumptions.

Above is our adaptation of how Karl Popper advised a soon to be Nobel Prize winner on how to refute his own theory with a series of self-corrections. We have updated it with Trafiwow's work on auxiliary assumptions. Above we are combining Trafimow (2012, 2017) work on auxiliary assumptions with the Peirce (1931/196) writing on self-correcting using the Abductive-Inductive-Deductive (AID) triadic. Above the embedded triangles represent successive self-correcting AID phases of the research project. There are some auxiliary assumptions that are nonobservational terms of the deductive theories (assumption sets), and some which are part of the test (assumptions) and others that are part of the abductive hypotheses (assumptions). Above we depict the sets of auxiliary assumptions which are not yet included or investigated in successive self-correcting phases of a research project.

Next let's look at two theories (1 & 2) about three aspects of multiplicity ensembles (extensive, intensive, and virtual). The auxiliary abductions (hypotheses) and auxiliary assumptions that link nonobservational terms of deductive theories with observational terms in the inductive tests is applied here to the self-correcting Abduction-Induction-Deduction triad of C. S. Peirce. We (Rosile, Boje, Sanchez, & Herder, in press, 2019 Click here for PDF draft version.) are studying the three multiplicity ensembles of the CIW in its activations of Worker-Driven-Corporate Social Responsibility (WD-CSR).

Some auxiliary assumptions are in nonobservational terms of the two theories (1 & 2), such as, monologic of corporate narrative that it is doing CSR without CIW's Fair Food Program or the Worker Driven monitoring of working conditions (slavery, wage theft, sexual abuse) that it addresses. The counternarrative- is WD-CSR is prompting more and more consumer and faith alliance groups to pressure corporations such as Taco Bell, McDonald's, Subway, Wal-Mart, etc. to join CIW Fair Food Monitoring. The abductive hypothesis is the Extensive Multiplicity Ensembles will continue to spread locally in agricultural migrant worker alliances with faith and student groups, in a movement that globalizes to other places, other countries, and extends beyond fruits and vegetables, such as to Vermont's Ben & Jerry's Fair Food partnership.

Other auxiliary assumptions are in the abductive hypotheses that are flashes of insight that as yet, do not have inductive tests, and are as yet not worked out in the theory deductions. Notice in next figure, some auxiliary assumptions are not in either Theory 1 or Theory 2.

Theory 1 is more about the Virtual Multiplicity Ensembles while Theory 2 is more about Extensive- and Intensive Multiplicity Ensembles.

Figure Adapted from Boje (2019b)

 This is worked out initially in Boje, D. M. (2019b). Organizational Research: Storytelling In Action. London/NY: Routledge, then made applicable to doing dissertations in Boje, D. M.; Rosile, G. A. (in press). How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. Download for free until published in 2020

It is being applied in empirical studies: e.g. Rosile, Boje, Sanchez and Herder (in press 2019) Business and Society Journal, July 2019. Click here for PDF draft version.

"In Deleuzian ontology, the ‘virtual’ and the ‘actual’ are mutually exclusive ways of constituting the ‘real’ (Boundas, 2010: 300). There are two hybrids: Actual/Real state of affairs of bodies and bodily mixtures and individuals, and Virtual/Real incorporeal events on a plane of consistency belonging to ‘pure past’ that can never be fully present, or coincide with its actualizing (De Landa, 1999)" (Rosile et al., in press 2019).

This is an example from Rosile, Boje, Sanchez and Herder (in press 2019) Click here for PDF. In the self-correcting phases we began our pre-study with auxiliary assumptions form the accepted 2016 (Rosile, Boje & Claw, published 2018 CLICK HERE for online prepublication draft, or here for PDF from Sage,) Ensemble Leadership Theory, then in the four phases, we changed our auxiliary assumptions, by developing different theory corrections, different inductive tests, and making different abductive hypotheses along the research journey, which led to various revisions of Business and Society publication begun in 2017 and being published in 2019/2020 (Rosile, Boje, Sanchez and Herder). We were refuting our own  initial theory, changing our abductions-inductions-deductions along the way by working out various auxiliary assumptions.



We are depicting the relation of Auxiliary Assumptions to test with the self-correcting Phases in the study of WD-CSR.



The Storytelling Theories are are looking at here are indicated in Blue above.

There are two quite different dialectics. This first one is Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis and the image is inspired by Hanah Arendt's work

Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis: We call it D1 and its an abstracting sort of dialectic, not grounded in the real or actual. It does have its role in storytelling.  

Negation of the Negation: We call it D3 and its about the whole system, rather than the sort of reductionistic abstracting of D1.

Dialogisms: Bakhtin's (1981) essays of the four dialogisms we call D1 (polyphonic, stylistics, chronotopes, & architectonic discourses). Bakhtin wanted no part of either dialectic.

Diffracting: From Donna Haraway's (1992) work is not the mirror of narrative representation (abstracting). Rather many histories diffract, so we call it D4 and use it to make some sense out of the rehistoricizing processes.

What is interesting in storytelling theory is how these 4 D's intereact, interplay, interpenetrate one another.

The Storytelling Theory we are beginning to work out (deductively) is how four D's are entangling in the Antenarrating Processes: (D1) Dialectic of Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis that is exhibited in Narrative-Counternarrative dynamics of Abstracting.  This is a reductionist dialectic that focuses on the primary conflict but does not address Grounding in what Mikhail Bakhtin (1981) calls the four dialogisms (D2) (Boje, 2008): polyphonic, stylistics, chronotopic, and architectonic). Right to left there is a a dynamic of Futuring by a different kind of dialectic (D3): Negation of the Negation. It is prominent in Jean-Paul Sartre's (1960) Critique of Dialectical Reason: Practical Ensembles. Rather than a linear temporalizing (past-present-future) we theorize Futuring (D3) to Rehistoricizing (D4) diffracting (applying a theory by Donna Haraway).

Haraway, D. (1992). The promises of monsters: a regenerative politics for inappropriate/d others. Cultural studies, 295-337. Click Here to see pdf

"A cyborg subject position results from and leads to interruption, diffraction, reinvention" (Haraway, 1992: 333).

 Rehistoricizing Multiple pasts diffract in interference patterns of ratio(nality) making CIW WD-CSR connections (alliances, Fair Food Program partnerships) that exceed the domination of corporate hierarchical control by CIW's ensemble leadership, rather than reflect a narrative-counternarrative of stability.

" Diffraction does not produce 'the same' displaced, as reflection and refraction do. Diffraction is a mapping of interference, not of replication, reflection, or reproduction" (Haraway, 1992: 300).

Multiplicity ensembles are comprised of organic, technical, mythic, textual, and political actants and actors. Migrant communities were once family affairs, but not its mostly adults sending back earnings. The sociomaterial theory asserts a diffracting apparatus, diffracting (rehistoricizing) a past that never existed.

"But the diffracting apparatus of a monstrous artifactualism can perhaps interfere in this little family drama, reminding us that the modern world never existed and its fantastic guarantees are void" (Haraway, 1992: 303).

Haraway pushes the theory to its limits by asking this question:

" The question animating this diffracted narrative, this story based on little differences, is also simple: is there a consequential difference between a political semiotics of articulation and a political semiotics of representation?" (Haraway, 1992: 309).

Our theory is rehistoricizing of pasts that never were and pasts convenient to new or vested Futuring projects, is  enacting diffracting. In our theory terms, Haraway's project is to relocate Rehistoricizing diffracting (D4) into a Grounding of embodied meanings, dialogisms (D2).

" But I do take seriously the work to relocate, to diffract, embodied meanings as crucial work to be done in gestating a new world" (Haraway, 1992: 319).

The defracting-dialogizing in "embodied semiotic zones of earth" (Haraway, 1992: 322) anticipates Haraway's  2016 work on Staying with the Trouble, in Grounding in a multispecies storytelling, an Terrestrial Ethics for our Anthropocene situation.

Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.

These antenarrative  storytelling theory(Abstracting, Futuring, Grounding, & Rehistoricizing) are resulting in a number of storytelling methods we are integrating, as shown below (there are others not shown). As our study proceeded, we began to work out methodologies with our colleagues in Denmark, France, and New Zealand.

Two books began with Grace Ann and I teaching the Cabrini doctoral seminar in Philadelphia.


We will be working in 4th Wave GT with 10 self-correcting ontology approaches
The Boje (2019b book on storytelling research methods for 4th wave, came from the 2017 Cabrini Seminars.

Grace Ann and David worked with two amazing Cabrini students, TK (Thomas Kleiner)  and James Sibel to do self-correcting storytelling science method in their dissertation. Their work inspired us to write the book on Doing self-correcting storytelling science for your dissertation. We hope you find the two books valuable in your own work.



Above is work from Karl Popper, and it is a version of self-correcting science. In A and B, there are hypotheses written out before tests (by induction), but in C and D there are 'ad hoc' posthoc hypotheses written after the fact. Popper wanted to have the hypotheses done first, then to do tests of falsification or refutation.

Charles Sanders Peirce came up with the original idea of 'self-correcting' using his abductive-inductive-deduction iterations.  Abduction is an intuitive flash of an idea, then then needs to be worked out in inductive inquiry (conversational interviews, experiments, interventions, fieldwork, etc.). Deductions of theory have various assumptions to test.

Here is an image of four zigzag steps (as Popper called them) of self-correcting (Peirce's idea).

The storytelling interventions are emerging.

We are working out storytelling interventions with our colleagues around the world.

3. Extra SLIDES EXPLAINING VARIOUS POINTS of storytelling science self-correction method in global water crisis

One of the key interventions is True Storytelling. with new book by Larsen, Bruun, & Boje to be released in 2020 by Routledge

The Socioeconomic Approach (SEAM) to storytelling in our work with Henri Savall in France begins with listening to stories told  in a diagnostic phase of self-correcting storytelling science. The above four-leaf clover has the key concepts for the diagnosis of dysfunctions in the script of the organization (its discourse, stories, narratives, metrics) and these scripts are fed back to the client as diagnosis, along with the particular hidden costs of having such dysfunctions, and the root cause analysis. We have our student consultants do projects of Futuring with at least three rounds of Diagnostic, Project, Implementation, & Evaluation (DPIE) cycles, that constitute an upward spiral.

Above is example of root cause analysis to set uf the diagnostic phase, and then to initiate a spiral intervention.

Cai-Hillon, Yue; Boje, D. M. (2019). Socioeconomic Triple-Spiral-Helix Response to Socially Irresponsible Capitalism. In The Emerald Handbook of Management and Organization Inquiry (pp. 89-102). Emerald Publishing Limited.

The root cause analysis of interplay of dysfunctions of an enterprise is pretext to doing several DPIE projects. DPIE means Diagnostic, Project Planning, Implmentation of Intervention, and Evaluation by qualimetrics (qunatiative, financial, & qualitative) storytelling..

The three DPIEs depicted above form an upward spiral of breadth and potential FUTURING, and a self-correcting cycle that becomes a spiral of momentum. This is how organization move form Business-as-Usual (BAU) pathway to new pathway direction of organizational change and development.It involves movingo from Abstracting narrative-counternarratives to collecting living stories of Grounding, and moving from BAU pathway to a Futuring that diffracts and Rehistoricizes by identifying little wow moments of potential that are untold stories of the past.

In our work training consultants we have each student consultant work with one or more of the UN SDGs in their DPIE projects with their clients.

When we teach students and consultants to do the SEAM method of self-correction, we remind them that Henri Savall and Veronique Zardet refer to Abduction-Induction-Deduction (AID) triad, and they have a process of self-correcting scientific method in their organizational development intervention work.

This is the advanced version of Storytelling Paradigm, as it appears in our recent books.

STORYTELLING PARADIGM SHIFTS	WESTERN WAYS OF KNOWING WWOK				INDIGENOUS WAYS OF KNOWING IWOK
THEORY	Quantum Storytelling Theory
	Narrative Retrospective Sensemaking	Narrative-Counternarrative Dialectics			Ensemble Leadership Theory
	Antenarrative Prospective Sensemaking
	2nd Wave Grounded Theory		3rd Wave Grounded Theory		4th Wave Grounded Theory		1st Wave Grounded Theory
METHOD	Self-Correcting Induction Method						Crude Induction
	Quantitative Induction	Qualitative Induction
	Narrative Quantification	Ethno-statistics		Qualimetrics		Critical Accounting
	Storytelling Multiplicities Analyses
INTERVENTION	Socio-Economic Storytelling					Critical Accounts	Appreciative Inquiry
	Text-based Restorying			Embodied Restorying Process
	True Storytelling

PART VI: The Antenarrative Model for Strategic Case Analysis using the 6 B's As a practice exercise, you can apply the 6 B's of Antenarrating to a strategic analysis of the Alaska Gold Mine Case (Barach, 1977). After all a strategy is a story, a narrative plot.

PRE-WORK

PART ONE

"You have taken a three-month option on a possible gold mine in Alaska. It took you two months of dangerous journey to get there. In two weeks of exploration (and recuperation) you have regained your health, except for your injured left hand, which sometimes can become suddenly quite weak. In the last 24 hours, you have finally discovered gold in what appears to be good quantity. You have exactly two weeks to get to the claims office. If you arrive late, and attempt to secure the property (with the owners knowing you have visited it), there will probably be an auction at which you could be easily out-bid, given your limited resources. Here are your alternatives:

1.     Wait 3‑4 weeks until the weather warms up and enjoy a safe trip home.

2.     Go over the mountains. This is dangerous. It is sometimes impassable. It is quick, if you can make it without harm: 7‑10 days. If you encounter storms or injury, you will probably have to turn back or perish, as the longest part of the journey is on the way over the top.

3.     Go through the valley passes. This is less dangerous and is usually passable. It is slow and tiring. You can probably make it in 2 to 3 weeks. The weather is only moderately favorable, with what may be a mountain storm brewing. You will know if it is a storm within 48 hours, and whether the mountain is passable (if the storm comes) about one day later.

4.     Wait 2-3 days, take #2 weather permitting; if not, take #3. (There is no advantage to waiting if you prefer #3 anyway, and waiting to take #1 = #1.)

What do you do? (Circle your answer)                                   #1        #2        #3        #4" (Barach, 1977).

 

Keep in mind that a case analysis is about the quality of your arguments for a decision. It is about how you justify the choice you are making.

Make your choice: What do you do for Part I?

Now answer the question of the 6 B's of your strategy in this case:

1. Before

2. Beneath

3. Bets

4. Becoming

5. Between

6. Beyond

When the choice is agreed upon, then and only then, read Part II.

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PART TWO: ANTENARRATIVE ANALYSIS of ALASKA GOLD MINE CASE (Note this is the version of the case Grace Ann Rosile received in her MBA class).

      "Assume you chose the valley passes (#3). Five days later you are half-way there. You have pushed too hard and sprained your ankle. An old friend on a trapping expedition came along and takes you to a cabin. He could get to the claims office tow, and offers to take you. Traveling together, it will take 2 more weeks to get there.
      If you tell him and make a deal, he alone could get there in about 10 days. If you were well, you could do it easily in 7 days, but you cannot make it alone without a few days rest and then 10 days to 2 weeks of travel.

      You are not sure whether he can exercise the option and file the claim correctly, because he is not too bright, tends to drink to excess, and is not the single-minded hustler that you are. He is a simple, decent fellow who like trapping, but would, you suspect, both need and desire financial independence. You think you can trust him, if you offer to split 50:50, since he would need your expertise and help to capitalize on the discovery."

  

What is your decision

                                                                                                            Go with him  _______

                                                                                                Go it alone    _______

                                                                                                Send him       _______

Next: Having made your decision, decide how much and what kind of communication will your group provided to the trapper?

Finally, study the 6 B's of Antenarrating, and then make your decision. Then write out the 6 B's as an analysis of your strategy.

1. Before

2. Beneath

3. Bets

4. Becoming

5. Between

6. Beyond

Option: Combine pairs of groups together, and the task is to come to a consensus strategy implementation (point of Part II  is getting things down through people who are out of your direct control).

Some topics you can invite us to cover from the above books:

LIST OF REFERENCE BOOKS FOR DOCTORAL EDUCATION

Boje, D. M. (2001). Narrative methods for organizational & communication research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Boje, D. M. (2011). Introduction to agential antenarratives that shape the future of organizations. In Boje (ed.) Storytelling and the future of organizations: An Antenarrative Handbook (pp. 19-38). London: Routledge.

 

Boje, D. M. (2008). Storytelling Organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

Boje, D. M. (2014). Storytelling Organizational Practices: Managing in the quantum age. London: Routledge.

 

Boje, D. M. (2017). Theaters of Capitalism: Creating Conscious Capitalism. Las Cruces, NM: TamaraLand publishing.

Boje, D. M. (2019a). Global Storytelling: There is No Planet B. Singapore/London/NY: World Scientific.

 

Boje, D. M. (2019b). Organizational Research: Storytelling In Action. London/NY: Routledge.

Boje, D. M. (in review)Storytellling  Interventions in Global Water Crisis (Download free until published)Boje, D. M.; Sanchez, Mabel (2019a). The Emerald of Handbook of Quantum Storytelling Consulting. UK: Emerald Press

Boje, D. M.; Sanchez, Mabel (2019b). The Emerald of Handbook of Management and Organizational Inquiry. UK: Emerald Press.

Boje, D. M.; Rosile, G. A. (in press). How to Use Conversational Storytelling Interviews for Your Dissertation. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Download for free until published in 2020

Rosile, Grace Ann. (2016). Tribal Wisdom for Business Ethics. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES

Pelly, Robert Duncan M; Boje, David M. (2019a). "A Case for Follettian Interventions in Public Universities." Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education. Accepted Mar 20 2019. Access PDF here.

Jacob A.  Massoud, David M.  Boje, Elizabeth  Capener, Marilu  Marcillo (2019). "Intertextual Analysis of the BP Prudhoe Bay Disaster: Applying the 5 B’s of Antenarrative." International Journal of Organizational Analysis. Accepted Apr 12 2019. preprint available at Emerald with password

 Boje, David M. (2019a). “'Storytelling Organization”'is Being Transformed into Discourse of 'Digital Organization'” Accepted April 19 2019 for M@n@ging Journal.Click here for pre-publication PDF

 Pelly, Robert Duncah; Boje, David M. (2019b). Neoliberalism in the North American UniversityToward Integrating Divisions in Agent Orientation Via a Follettian Differentiated Relational Ontologypublished, Communication, Language At Work (CLAW) journal, https://tidsskrift.dk/claw/article/view/116132/164304

Rosile, Grace Ann; Boje, David M.’ Herder, Rick; Sanchez, Rick. (2019, in press).  The Coalition of Immokalee Workers uses Ensemble Storytelling Processes to Overcome Enslavement in Corporate Supply Chains. This is earlier draft of article accepted by Business and Society Journal, July 2019. Click here for PDF draft version.

Boje, David M.; Rosile, Grace Ann. (2019). 'Conversational Storytelling Research Methods: Cats, Dogs, and Humans in Pet Capitalism. Communication Research and Practice journal. Accepted Oct 9, 2019. Click here for pre-publication PDF.

Rosile, Grace Ann; Boje, David M.; Claw, Carma. (2018). “Ensemble Leadership Theory: Collectivist, Relational, and Heterarchical Roots from Indigenous Contexts.” Leadership journal, Vol. 14(3) 307–328.  CLICK HERE for online prepublication draft, or here for PDF from Sage,

RECENT PRESENTATIONS (slides and video)

Boje, D. M. (2019a) Cabrini Cohort presentation on Futuring and the Negation of Globalization Slavery

Boje. D. M. (2019b) How to Deconstruct Coca-Cola Water Storytelling as a Greenwashing deception?

Boje, D. M. (2019c). What is the 'storytelling science' of Abilene's Water -- talk given April 18 2019 at McMurry University. Slides at https://davidboje.com/Abilene/Abilene Boje storytelling science hour Apr 2019.pptx

Boje, D. M. (2019d). Why is SEAM’s self-correcting ‘storytelling science’ better than Appreciative Inquiry at Conserving the Virtual Water of the Planet?  Apr 27, ISEOR Institution doctoral seminar. Lyon France. Slides at https://davidboje.com/Lyon/Boje ISEOR doctoral presentation April 27 2019.pptx

Boje, D. M. (2019e). ‘Water’s business models and business storytelling’. Keynote presentation to ‘Storytelling and the Future of Organizations Conference’  8-10 May 2019. Slides at https://davidboje.com/Aalborg/Boje%20keynote%20SHORT%20VERSION.pptx

Boje, D. M. (2019f) ‘A 'storytelling science' 'little s' for your dissertation and after’ May 14, presentation to seminar, Southern Denmark University, Kolding, DK. Slides at https://davidboje.com/Kolding/Doing Self correcting storytelling science dissertation KOLDING May 14 2019.pptx

Boje, D. M. (2019g) ‘Dark side of water storytelling. Keynote presentation to Dark Side of Communication Conference (2^nd international and interdisciplinary conference on Discourse and Communication in Professional Contexts.) 14 – 16 August Aalborg University.  Slides at https://davidboje.com/Aalborg/Dark%20Side%20of%20Water%20Storytelling%20for%20Aalborg%20Conference.pptx

Boje, D. M. (2019h). Storytelling and temporal interplay seminar. Invited presentation to Centre for Organizational Time (COT) Copenhagen Business School August 26.  Slides at https://davidboje.com/Aalborg/Storytelling%20and%20Temporal%20Interpaly%20Center%20for%20Time%20CBS.pptx

Boje, D. M. (2019i). ‘The Dark Side of Psychology of Make Believe in the Face of Global Heating’. Invited presentation to the Psychology Department New Mexico State University, Sept 27. Slides at https://davidboje.com/Storyteling and Psychology Sep 27 2019.pptx

Boje, D. M.; Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg; Sparre, Mogens ; Vibe, Pernille; Friis, Ole; Mølbjerg, Mikkel. (2019). “What is True Storytelling: Migrant Care in Nordic Countries” May 21-22. Slides at https://davidboje.com/truestorytelling/Skagen%20TRUE%20STORYTELLING%20May%2021%202019.pptx  YouTube 11 min at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4hCzSN4hF8

 

  Boje, D. M. (2018). 'Global Water Scarcity', presentation to the 8^th annual Quantum Storytelling Conference, Las Cruces New Mexico. December. See YouTube video at https://youtu.be/zyA7Lst8mEs

Rosile, Grace Ann. (2019). Worker-Driven Corporate Social Responsibility of  Ensemble CIW. Presentation to 2019 Cabrini Cohort. 

Figure 2: The world of Nature is a multiplicity which human actions is changing. So we need to move from Attraction A (Predator Fossil Fuel Capitalism) to Attraction B (Socially & Ecologically Responsible Degrowth Capitalism)

Click here for slides for the Storytelling and Temporal Interplay  Seminar at Copenhagen Business School, 

Centre for Organizational Time (COT)
August 26 2019

Storytelling is dynamic so it can be a part of dynamic complexity Grace Ann and David call the Ensembles of Multiplicities

DOCTORAL RESEARCH SEMINARS (open to Graduate Students and Faculty)

-          Doctoral Seminar 1 led by Grace Ann Rosile - : Managing your thesis through to submission slides Differences in Western Narratives, Living Stories, and Antenarratives

-         Doctoral  Seminar 2 led by Grace Ann Rosile with D. Boje - TPutting your voice into dissertation, presenting your research for job interviews and funders; autoethnography Slides for Seminar 2 and Seminar 3 are here.

-          Doctoral Seminar 3 led by Grace Ann Rosile with D. Boje - Introduction to Self-Correcting Induction Methodology; practice linking experience to theory; Why conversational interviewing is better method than semi-structured interviewing (Hawthorne studies) Slides for STORYTELLING DATA ANALYSIS and Deconstructing Coca Cola STORY MAP

-          Doctoral Seminar -led by Grace Ann Rosile with D. Boje  Publishing with colleagues or classmates; seeking co-authors, applying for grants, consulting

Wednesday  Leadership Class  . Slides on Braided Leadership after the Shooting Slides on Leadership and Sociomateriality with Popper and Sartre?

STORYTELLING SCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES (Open to all):
- Advanced Storytelling Science Seminar 1 by David Boje - What is  the Storytelling Science Paradigm Shift HERE ARE SLIDES for latest STORYTELLING SCIENCE with Braided River focus.
- Advance Storytelling Science Seminar 2  by David Boje - Tuesday 26 March 2-3PM  SLIDES FOR CONVERSATIONAL STORYTELLING METHODOLOGY

Special slides for Rohny = AI and Positive Science Deconstruction
- What would Karl Popper Say about Grounded Theory - University-wide seminar (date to be announced) by David Boje

Storytelling is multifractality, an ensemble of multiplicities

Fractal narrative’ is defined as “a narrative that finds its best accomplished form in the Web” in hyperlink networks (Durate, 2014: 284).  A fractal-narrative is linear or cyclical in form, with a central monologic or monomythic structure, a heroic character, in a complex plot within plots, patterns within patterns — that repeats and repeats, from one telling to the next (Boje, 2015, in press).

“A fractal story is defined here as a web of fluid, living story interrelationships between urban chaos and fractal cyber order that is centrifugal, veering away from order toward anarchies, discontinuity and erratic, violent urbanity” (p. 7 Boje editor,  Organizational Change and Global Standardization: Solutions to Standards and ...

The fractal antenarrative is different than these other fractals,. The Fractal-Antenarrative is the before-bets-beneath-between-beyond-becoming patterning, what Jeff Noon (1996) the “randomologist” calls the Vurt, sometimes in pattern of ‘downward fractal-spiral’ (XXiX), e.g. the downward fractal-spiral of the eco-system with loss of more and more species, extinct by unintelligent action as John Dewey calls it (Boje, 2015: xxxii).

Articles worth your time

1. Wolff Lundholt, Marianne; Boje, David M. (2018). Understanding Organizational Narrative-Counter-narratives Dynamics: An overview of Communication Constitutes Organization (CCO) and Storytelling Organization Theory (STO) approaches, Accepted Aug 31 2018 at Communication and Language at Work´ (CLAW) journal Click here for copy of article.
2. Bell, E., & Willmott, H. (2019). Ethics, politics and embodied imagination in crafting scientific knowledge. Human Relations, In-Press.  Click here to request a copy from the OU Author.
3. Sele, K., & Grand, S. (2016). Unpacking the dynamics of ecologies of routines: Mediators and their generative effects in routine interactions. Organization Science, 27(3), 722-738. See copy of article
   

STUDY GUIDES:

1. Please download 20 Storytelling Paradigms; 18 are beyond 1st 3 waves of Grounded Theory, and are basis of two new books in menu at your left about 4th wave approaches.# 20 is True Storytelling Ontology

Slide Shows:

1. Slides for  'storytelling science' problem solving CLICK HERE FOR SLIDES for Boje Keynote: 'Water's Business Models and Business Storytelling'

2. TRUE STORYTELLING AS CONSULTATION TOOL - Slides David Boje & Jens Larsen 'Old Friends Industries' Presentation to 65 public executives and managers on Wed May 16, 2018 Copenhagen
   

   "true storytelling" with Jens Larsen and Lena Bruun, partners Old Friends Industries

1. ,True Storytelling PART 1: INTRODUCTION (slides part 1) can save humanity

2. True Storytelling PART 2: SAVING HUMANITY FROM ITS OWN EXTINCTION (slides part 2) and Antenarrative

3. PART 3: HOW CONSULTANTS CAN USE TRUE STORYTELLING WITH THEIR CLIENTS