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What is Living Story Theory

Chapter 6
Handbook of Research on Knowledge-Intensive Organizations
Defined here as the emergence, trajectory, and morphing of living story from antenarrative-conception to the death of decomposition and forgetting to tell anymore (Boje, 2005e).
Published in Chapter:
Sorting the Relationship of Tacit Knowledge to Story and Narrative Knowing
Jo A. Tyler (Pennsylvania State University, USA) and David M. Boje (New Mexico State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-176-6.ch006
Abstract
This chapter fits the theme, the interplay between creativity and control in organizations. Story is often claimed to be a way to elicit tacit knowledge from people and their organization. The authors would like to suggest that this is impossibility. To story something is to shape it intuitively and willfully. Story shapes events into experience and into memory. Without story experience is just reenactment. To reenact is to relive the events, to feel the pain, fear, and terror.
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