<p> WORKSHOP ON Narration and Knowledge Management</p><p>Brussels, December 4-5, 2003</p><p>Day 1 </p><p>8:30 - 9:00 Registration</p><p>Opening Session 9:00 - 9:45 Getting together; Introduction to the theme; Structure of the program</p><p>Session I: Linking organizational narrations and organizational knowledge 9:45 -10:45 Barbara Torell: Narrative Knowledge in High Risk Decision Making: Uncovering Expertise</p><p>10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break</p><p>Session II: Narrations and knowledge transfer 11:15 – 12:00 Edgar Meyer/Con Connell/Jonathan H. Klein: A narrative approach to knowledge exchange: An empirical investigation in two contrasting settings </p><p>12:00 - 12:30 Elizabeth Shaw: What’s in a story? …A method for facilitating learning and knowledge transfer in entrepreneurial inter-organisational collaborations</p><p>12:30 - 13:00 Karin Thier/Christine Erlach: The Transfer of Tacit Knowledge with the Method “Story Telling”</p><p>13:00 - 14:30 lunch</p><p>Session III: The structure of narrations 14:30 - 15:00 Eddie Soulier/Jean Caussanel: HyperStoria: Acquire, represent, understand and share experiences by the way of narration</p><p>15:00 - 15:30 Christine Henon: Environmental management, role of narrative knowledge and of quantum information: the example of Jervis Bay</p><p>15:30 - 16:00 Etty R. Nilsen: Storytelling: Knowledge creation or research method? Or both?</p><p>16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break</p><p>16:15 - 16:45 Piers Myers: Alternative Perspectives on the Knowledge-Narrative Link: the Case of Organisational Narratives as Parables</p><p>16:45 - 17:15 Resume of the first day: Impressions & discussions</p><p>17:15 - 17:45 Informal drink Day 2 </p><p>Session IV: The tacit dimension of narrations 9:00 - 9:30 Ad van Iterson: Carnival mockery of the locals: a case of organizational gossip in print</p><p>9:30 - 10:00 Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger/Roswitha Hofmann: Narratives, Gender and Organizations</p><p>10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break</p><p>10:30 - 11:00 Brian Trought: Narrative or tacit knowledge in manufacturing systems</p><p>11:00 - 11:30 Daniel Geiger: The Dark Side of Narrations: Narrations as paradoxical functional and dysfunctional genres</p><p>11:30 - 12:00 Robin Holt: The origins of knowledge</p><p>12:00 - 13:30 lunch</p><p>Session V: Narrations, knowledge & change 13:30 - 14:00 Ludmila Mládková: Narrative and Management of Change</p><p>14:00 - 14:15 Comments from a comparative perspective: Éva Málovics/György Málovics: The Cultural Approach of Organisational Learning and Knowledge</p><p>14:15 - 14:30 coffee break</p><p>14:30 - 15:00 Johann Seiwald: The Role of Knowledge Management in Implementing a Cost</p><p>15:00 - 15:30 Willemijn Dicke/Rik van Duifhuizen: Narratives on hierarchy. A case-study of a direct marketing company operating in communist and post-communist countries</p><p>Closing Session 15:45 - 17:00 Comments on the sessions; Overaching themes; Farewell</p>