Spatial stories
What can RPG teach to organization studies?
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https://doi.org/10.12712/rpca.v18i3.62524Abstract
Like RPG, organizations depend on interactions between actors with different roles that follow negotiated rules to generate events organized by narratives. Organizational everyday life is constantly permeated by fictional/narrative elements, mobilized to produce/give meaning to actions and objectives. We used RPG to explore the narrative nature of organizing and understand how narrative practices shape and organize everyday life. We focus on De Certeau’s the discussions about spatial stories to analyze data from an ethnography on the organizing of RPG. It contributes to understanding of organizing processes in which narrative practices occupy a central position, by integrating materiality, interactivity and narrativity.
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