Fiction as a horizon for understanding the real in internal organizational communication
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-2593.organicom.2022.196627Keywords:
Fiction, Organizational communication, Work, Qualitative researchAbstract
This work explores some of the contributions of fiction to qualitative research on organizational communication. The concrete life of work in an organization is balanced on the liminal threshold between reality and fiction, in the sense that the organizing activities of work are established in temporary, transforming, and redefining arrangements of networks of relationships
between narratives. These arrangements juxtapose versions of the world exposing the intervals where a shared common is produced. We also argue that the knowledge offered by fiction can redefine the way we approach organizational phenomena.
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