On the Narrative Construction of Multinational Corporations: An Antenarrative Analysis of Legitimation and Resistance in a Cross-Border Merger

By Eero Vaara, Janne Tienari. Organ. Sci., 2011

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Sensemaking in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (2014, background): “Other writing on narrative and antenarrative in organizations (Boje, 1995; Vaara & Tienari, 2011), as well as Gephart and Brown and colleagues’ work on post-crisis inquiries (Brown, 2000, 2005; Brown & Jones, 2000; Gephart, 1984, 1993) also make visible the power struggles inherent in collective…”
Sensemaking and sensegiving stories of jazz leadership (2012, background): “Stories, and narratives are significant components of such a discourse (see Putnam and Boys, 2006; Rhodes and Brown, 2005b; Vaara and Tienari, 2010).”
The Pre-Deal Phase of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Review and Research Agenda (2020, background): “For instance, when the parties trust each other, they may exert more effort in bargaining, which in turn may increase their focus on synergy gains from the deal (Vaara & Tienari, 2011).”
To Shape or Adapt: Knowledge Problems, Epistemologies, and Strategic Postures under Knightian Uncertainty (2020, background): “Firms can do so through a variety of symbolic strategies, including discourse and storytelling (Cattani et al., 2018; Khaire & Wadhwani, 2010; Vaara & Tienari, 2011), category labels (Grodal et al., 2015), and skillful use of meanings embedded in product form design (Anthony et al., 2016; Rindova,…”