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jocm cover (i).qxd 26/03/2010 10:54 Page 1 ISSN 0953-4814 Volume 23 Number 2 2010 Journal of Organizational Change Management 3rd International Conference on Rhetoric and Narratives in Management Research Guest Editors: Marja Flory and Oriol Iglesias www.emeraldinsight.com Journal of ISSN 0953-4814 Volume 23 Organizational Change Number 2 Management 2010 3rd International Conference on Rhetoric and Narratives in Management Research Guest Editors Marja Flory and Oriol Iglesias CONTENTS Access this journal online __________________________ 111 Editorial advisory board ___________________________ 112 GUEST EDITORIAL Once upon a time: the role of rhetoric and narratives in management research and practice Marja Flory and Oriol Iglesias_____________________________________ 113 Rhetoric in management and in management research Eduard Bonet and Alfons Sauquet _________________________________ 120 Management – decision and interpretation Hans Siggaard Jensen ___________________________________________ 134 The reluctant rhetorician: senior managers as rhetoricians in a strategic change context Tomas Nilsson _________________________________________________ 137 Autopoeisis and meaning: a biological approach to Bakhtin’s superaddressee This journal is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Kyrill A. Goosseff _______________________________________________ 145 Committee on Publication Ethics New for 2010 † As part of Emerald’s commitment to highlighting the impact of research, authors will, from this volume, be able to flag up implications for research, practice and/or society. Our structured abstracts format aims to pinpoint further for the reader, the utility of the research in question. † Graphics supplied in colour will be reproduced in colour to enhance their appearance in the online version of the article. The hard copy will continue to be reproduced in black and white. Slumdog Millionaire: the rhetoric of chance CONTENTS or sentimental management of inequalities continued in pulp fiction Sławomir Magala _______________________________________________ 152 Official chronicles of corporate globalization and unofficial stories of international mobility: resisting patronage of meaning? Hugo Gaggiotti _________________________________________________ 157 Narratives: a powerful device for values transmission in family businesses Maria Jose Parada and Helena Vilada´s______________________________ 166 Engaging with the unknowable through narratives of personal experience Peter Simpson__________________________________________________ 173 Socialization into modernity: on organizational enculturation in infantocracies Barbara Czarniawska and Gideon Kunda____________________________ 180 Post scriptum: managerial rhetoric and narrative legitimacies _______________________________________ 195 Book review_______________________________________ 197 Call for papers ____________________________________ 203 www.emeraldinsight.com/jocm.htm As a subscriber to this journal, you can benefit from instant, Structured abstracts electronic access to this title via Emerald Management eJournals. 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Fax +44 (0) 1274 785201 JOCM EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD James Barker Heather Ho¨pfl 23,2 HQ USAFA/DFM Professor of Management, University of Essex, UK Colorado Springs, USA Maria Humphries David Barry University of Waikato, New Zealand University of Auckland, New Zealand Arzu Iseri Jean Bartunek Bogazici University, Turkey Boston College, USA David Jamieson 112 Dominique Besson Pepperdine University, USA IAE de Lille, France Campbell Jones Steven Best Management Centre, University of Leicester, UK University of Texas-El Paso, USA David Knights Michael Bokeno Keele University, UK Murray State University, Kentucky, USA Monika Kostera Mary Boyce School of Management, Warsaw University, Poland University of Redlands, USA Hugo Letiche Warner Burke University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, Columbia University, USA The Netherlands Adrian Carr Benyamin Lichtenstein University of Western Sydney-Nepean, Australia University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Stewart Clegg Stephen A. Linstead University of Technology (Sydney), Australia Durham Business School, University of Durham, UK David Collins Slawek Magala University of Essex, UK Erasmus University, The Netherlands Cary Cooper Rickie Moore Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster, E.M. Lyon, France UK Ken Murrell Ann L. Cunliffe University of West Florida, USA University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Eric Nielsen Robert Dennehy Case Western Reserve University, USA Pace University, USA Walter Nord Eric Dent University of South Florida, USA University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Ellen O’Connor USA Chronos Associates, Los Altos, California, USA Alexis Downs Cliff Oswick The Business School, Emporia State University, King’s College, University of London, UK Kansas, USA Ian Palmer Ken Ehrensal RMIT University, Australia Kutztown University, USA Michael Peron Max Elden The University of Paris, Sorbonne, France University of Houston, USA Gavin M. Schwarz Andre´ M. Everett University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia University of Otago, New Zealand Abraham Shani