When fiction meets theory: Writing with voice, resonance, and an open end

Grafström, Maria,1978-Stockholms universitet,Stockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (SCORE),Score, Stockholm university (författare)

When fiction meets theory : Writing with voice, resonance, and an open end

In this chapter, we explore genre-blurring writing, where fiction meets theory, following the argument that texts in management and organisation studies suffer from the ‘textbook syndrome’. The stories that we tell through textbooks not only influence, but also set boundaries for, the way understandings are developed through the eyes of the reader. Often textbooks are written in a way that lead the reader into an idealised linear understanding of an organisation – far from the problems, dilemmas and messy everyday life that managers experience. Our discussion builds on previous literature on writing differently and our own experiences of writing a textbook by involving a professional novelist. Engaging in genre-blurring writing opens up how we think not only about writing, fiction and facts but also in our role as scientists. By situating ourselves, as researchers, at the intersection of fiction and the scientific work, not only new ways of writing, but also of thinking emerge. We discuss three aspects through which fiction challenge and develop our writing and thinking, namely to write with voice, resonance and an open end. Through genre-blurring writing, we create opportunities both to learn and to engage students in learning.

Jonsson, AnnaLund University,Lunds universitet,Organisation,Företagsekonomiska institutionen,Ekonomihögskolan,Organizational Studies,Department of Business Administration,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM(Swepub:lu)fek-ajo (författare)
Pullen, Alison (redaktör/utgivare)
Helin, Jenny (redaktör/utgivare)
Harding, Nancy (redaktör/utgivare)
Stockholms universitetStockholms centrum för forskning om offentlig sektor (SCORE) (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Writing Differently: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, s. 113-12997818386733839781838673376

Av författaren/redakt...: Grafström, Maria ...; Jonsson, Anna; Pullen, Alison; Helin, Jenny; Harding, Nancy

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