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Crossroads Writing Organizational Tales: Four Authors and Their Stories About Culture. Introduction

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  • Dvora Yanow

    (Department of Public Administration, California State University, Hayward, California 94542-3040)

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The title of this collection of short essays derives from Tales of the Field (Van Maanen: Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. Chicago University Press, Chicago, IL). In it, John Van Maanen argues that researchers’ writings are “tales”---that is, constructions---rather than objective reports or “mirrors,” to use Richard Rorty’s (Rorty, R. 1979. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.) term, of the external social world. Van Maanen writes there about ethnographies, but the point holds for social scientific (and scientific) writing in general. A text-used here in the sense of “the subject matter of a discourse” and not “textbook”---ethnographic or otherwise, is a means of (re)presentation.

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  • Dvora Yanow, 1995. "Crossroads Writing Organizational Tales: Four Authors and Their Stories About Culture. Introduction," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 6(2), pages 225-226, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ororsc:v:6:y:1995:i:2:p:225-226
    DOI: 10.1287/orsc.6.2.225
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