Browsing OU - Faculty and Staff Publications by Subject "narrative"

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    • Assessing Espoused Goals in Private Family Firms Using Content Analysis 

      Aaron F. McKenny; Jeremy C. Short; Miles A. Zachary; G.Tyge Payne (Family Business Review, 2012-09-01)
      Understanding how private family firms gauge performance is of great interest to family business scholars. Unfortunately, finding comparable data to understand differences in the performance of such firms is challenging. ...

    • The Ethnographic, the Reflective, and the Uncanny: Three ‚ÄúTellings‚Äù of Autobiography 

      Irene E. Karpiak (Journal of Transformative Education, 2003-04-01)
      Adult learners who write their life story embark on a process of personal self-reflection and meaning making. Some of their narratives center and remain on the detailing of life events. Other writing goes further, associating ...

    • Public Relations Rhetoric: Criticism, Dialogue, and the Long Now 

      Michael L. Kent (Management Communication Quarterly, 2011-08-01)
      This essay provides a response to the articles in this special issue by introducing the concepts of dialogue, groupthink, and long-term thinking. The philosophy of the Long Now Foundation (an organization devoted to ...