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Storied business : Typology, intertextuality, and traffic in entrepreneurial narrative

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Date
2002
Dewey
Direction d'entreprise
Sujet
Storytelling; Entrepreneurship; Narrative
JEL code
M31; L26; L00
Journal issue
Journal of Business Communication
Volume
39
Number
1
Publication date
2002
Article pages
36-54
Publisher
Association for Business Communication
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/3432
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Author
O'Connor, Ellen
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
Based on ten months of field research in a high technology start-up, and using ethnographic and grounded theory methodologies, this study identifies six basic narrative types (founding, visionary, marketing, strategy, historical, and conventional) in three main categories (personal, generic, and situational) that are essential in founding and governing a new company. These stories enable founders to (a) justify the existence of the company; (b) convince others to devote funds and other key resources to the company; and (c) make key decisions in the short and intermediate term. Also described in the paper is the interaction of these narratives, which in this case were often conflicting and even contradictory. The paper argues that a key competence of the founder and entrepreneur is not only the ability to develop narrative competence across the three categories but also to develop a command of their interactivity, or intertextuality.

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