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- Kostera, Monika, 1963-
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2021: A campus Odyssey
- 2017
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Ingår i: The Future of University Education. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783319468945 ; , s. 309-328
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter is based on a study carried out as a narrative collage – a research method aimed at the collection of fictive narratives from a chosen group of social actors concerned with a certain idea or phenomenon (Kostera 2006). The researcher asks respondents to compose a story on a given topic or beginning with a given sentence. I have asked a number of different social actors with various organizational experiences, students, researchers, management practitioners, and artists, from different countries, to write short fictive stories beginning with the phrase: “The big banner by the entrance proclaimed: ‘Happy New Year 2021!’ A group of students entered campus and looked around. Adam spoke first: ‘Don’t know about you, but I…’.” The stories are to be between 1/2 and 3 pages A4, any genre, any plot or plots, wherever imagination takes their authors. They are welcome to invent further characters, add context, place and detail. I read and interpret the stories, looking into the ways in which the authors use or approach characters, plots and archetypes, and in particular the idea of the university as envisaged in the story. The complete process does not offer any general theories or even local models about how reality works; instead, if it is carried out well, it throws new light on a part of the cultural context of organizing located within domain of imagination. Imagination is also a reality, even if it is not material. It has its laws and its rules, and can be regarded as a mental space where innovative and creative thinking can take place, and thus where potential for change originates.
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- Kostera, Monika, 1963-
(författare)
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A mury (wyobcowania) runą...
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nowy Obywatel. - 2082-7644. ; :2019-09-01
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Kostera, Monika, 1963-
(författare)
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Adventures and lovers : organizational heroines and heroes for a new time
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Genius and Eminence. - : ICSC Press. - 2334-1130 .- 2334-1149. ; 2:2, s. 115-125
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Narratives resonating with profound layers of culture have such a strong influence because they use archetypes. Archetypes, understood in the Jungian way, as constructs in the collective unconscious, ready to hold important cultural material, can shape the plot, characters, time and place of such tales. I analyzed the empirical material collected during a longitudinal ethnographic study of Polish and UK alternative organizations, such as cooperatives, value driven businesses, anarchist collectives and others, operating in the margins of the capitalist system, looking for underpinning archetypical tales, which referred to their general principle of organizing. I have found two such overarching motifs: the Adventurer (or the classic Campbellian hero) and the Lover. The narrative thrust of the archetypical tales seems to be directed in opposite ways. The hybrid they form may have an interesting potential for radical change.
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- Kostera, Monika, 1963-
(författare)
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Akademia moja miłość
- 2018
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Ingår i: Polityka Akademicka. ; :2018-07-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Kostera, Monika, et al.
(författare)
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Antropologia organizacji : Wprowadzenie
- 2011
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Ingår i: Problemy Zarzadzania. - 1644-9584 .- 2300-8792. ; 32:2, s. 5-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Numer "Problemów Zarządzania", który oddajemy w ręce Czytelników, poświęcony jest antropologii organizacji. Przygotowując koncepcję zeszytu, miałyśmy świadomość, że obszar ten w Polsce dopiero się rozwija, i zastanawiało nas, czy temat ten spotka się z zainteresowaniem autorów. Ku naszej radości, ale również zdziwieniu, zainteresowanie publikacją było bardzo duże - liczba zgłoszonych tekstów znacznie przekraczała tę, jaką można było umieścić w redagowanym przez nas numerze.
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- Kostera, Monika
(författare)
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Archetypes
- 2007
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Ingår i: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. - : Saga, London. - 9781412915151
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Kostera, Monika, et al.
(författare)
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Archetypes of Rivalry : Narrative responses of Polish radio station managers to perceived environmental change
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Organizational Change Management. - : Emerald. - 0953-4814 .- 1758-7816. ; 23:5, s. 564-577
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how managers of Polish local radio stations construct their organizations in terms of archetypes of rivalry as a response to perceived changes in the environment.Design/methodology/approach – First the central notions are explained, such as market, competition, archetype, and then the findings from a prolonged empirical study are presented.Findings – Environmental change is seen as the plot on the managers' narratives, whereas the chosen archetypes of rivalry – as characters in those stories – are supposed to handle the changes.Originality/value – The paper explores some aspects of the narrative construction of environmental change.
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