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I’ve been looking forward for a long time to the special issue of the academic journal Organization that has just been released.

Normally, academic journal articles aren’t widely accessible without payment or subscription (except through libraries), but the publisher, Sage, happens to be having a month of free access right now — till April 30.

Here are the goodies you can find in this issue:

Organization: Special Issue — Storytelling and Change:
1 May 2009; Vol. 16, No. 3

• Storytelling and Change: An Unfolding Story

Andrew D. Brown, Yiannis Gabriel, and Silvia Gherardi

• Anti-dialogic Positioning in Change Stories: Bank Robbers, Saviours and Peons

Nic Beech, Stacy A. MacPhail, and Christine Coupland

• From Loss to Lack: Stories of Organizational Change as Encounters with Failed Fantasies of Self, Work and Organization

Michaela Driver

• On Telling Stories But Hearing Snippets: Sense-taking from Presentations of Practice

David Sims, Chris Huxham, and Nic Beech

• Moving Away from Chronological Time: Introducing the Shadows of Time and Chronotopes as New Understandings of `Narrative Time’

Anne Reff Pedersen

• Challenging Hegemonic Masculinities: Men’s Stories on Gender Culture in Organizations

Annalisa Murgia and Barbara Poggio

• Storytelling and `Character’: Victims, Villains and Heroes in a Case of Technological Change

Andrea Whittle, Frank Mueller, and Anita Mangan

• Constituting Change and Stability: Sense-making Stories in a Farming Organization

Maria Elisa Peirano-Vejo and Ralph E. Stablein