The Formal Analysis of Narratives of Organizational Change

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 741-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Stevenson ◽  
Danna N. Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Event Structure ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Environmental Dispute ◽  
Change Event ◽  
Narrative Description ◽  
Analysis Of Narratives

Formal analysis of narrative descriptions of events allows the researcher to rigorously examine processes of organizational change. Event-structure analysis (ESA), a rule-driven formal technique of narrative analysis, is applied to a narrative description of an environmental dispute. Various organizations and government agencies engaged in this dispute. ESA is applied to the narrative to clarify the causal linkages among the events and to demonstrate the advantages of studying organizational change through the formal analysis of narratives.

scholarly journals Ethnopoetics and Narrative Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Paul Atkinson ◽  
Natasha Carver
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Analytic Work ◽  
Analysis Of Narratives

We acknowledge and concur with Catherine Kohler Riessman’s insistence on the necessity of sustained and formal analysis of narratives. We thus distance ourselves from qualitative researchers who aim to celebrate personal narratives rather than undertaking that analytic work. In doing so, we also draw on the work of Dell Hymes, whose approach to ethnopoetics informs our own. The discussion is developed and illustrated with materials from Natasha Carver’s research with informants of Somali heritage that display the relevance of ethnopoetic transcription and analysis.

scholarly journals An innovative application of event structure analysis (ESA)

MethodsX ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 101256
Author(s):  
Jonathan Simões Freitas ◽  
Julio Cezar Fonseca de Melo ◽  
Mario Sergio Salerno ◽  
Raoni Barros Bagno ◽  
Vinicius Chagas Brasil
Keyword(s):  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Event Structure

A Case of an IT-Enabled Organizational Change Intervention

2012 ◽  
pp. 190-212
Author(s):  
Bing Wang ◽  
David Paper
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Change Management ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Novel ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
It Implementation ◽  
Perceived Change ◽  
Change Event

This case study documents an organizational change intervention concerning the implementation of a novel information technology at a university-owned research foundation (URF). It evidences the disparate expectations and reactions by key actors toward the change event, marking a mismatch between a new paradigm required by the new technology and existing information technology practices. Drawing upon change management and management information systems (MIS) literature, the authors discuss the perceived change management issues hindering the change process at URF. The discussion is tempered by a theoretical lens that attempts to integrate the literature bases drawn upon in this research. In particular, resistance from in-house IT specialists was observed as the strongest force obstructing the novel IT implementation. This study offers a forum to stimulate both researchers and practitioners to rethink the necessary elements required to enact change, especially with respect to novel IT implementations.

Mill Owners and Wobblies

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-215
Author(s):  
John G. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Causal Structure ◽  
Event Structure ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Lumber Industry ◽  
The World ◽  
Relational Distance ◽  
Local Law ◽  
Class Divisions

This article examines the event structure of the labor conflict known as the Everett Massacre, which occurred in Everett, Washington, on November 5, 1916. The much-celebrated confrontation between members of the Industrial Workers of the World and local law officials and citizen groups came to symbolize the sharp class divisions that shaped the lumber industry in the latter years of the nineteenth century in the Northwest. The article uses event structure analysis (ESA) to identify the causal structure of this conflict. Guided by this analysis, the focus turns to the structure of discourse in newspaper articles to reveal changes in the contrasting accounts of mill owners and union members, or Wobblies. The article draws on the concepts of relational distance and the monstrous double as a theoretical interpretation for the comparatively more violent labor struggles in the Far West.

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