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Antenarrative is part of Organizational storytelling theory. The first ever use of the term antenarrative is in Narrative Methods for Organization and Communication Research . In 2001 David Boje also delivered two papers in Europe on antenarrative . In 2002, Professor Boje also developed the theory in a keynote address to the Discourse Conference in a paper delivered regarding Enron antenarratives, that became the basis for a coauthored article in the journal Finantial Times Top ranked journal Organization Studies .

There has been increasing interest in antenarrative theory and research since then with theory building and research on antenarrative within David's own subsequent work individual and with colleagues. Further, there is a great deal of antenarrative scholarship that has been conducted independently of Professor Boje's authorship. Such as work done by Dr.'s: Barge 2004 ; Collins & Rainwater, 2005 ; Durant, Gardner, Taylor, 2006 ; Vickers, 2005 and Yolles, (2007). Most recently Vaara and Tienari (2011); and under Professor Boje's editor ship, Storytelling and the Future of Organizations: An Antenarrative Handbook.

Antenarrative Definition

Antenarrative is a pre-narrative, and a bet (ante) that an antenarrative that will become a living story that is world-changing. It is a bet that a narrative will change the extant hegemonic narrative. An antenarrative is a proto-story that has not yet formed; it is a narrative that comes before. In its original definition David Boje said that it is a "non-linear, incoherent, collective, unplotted, and pre-narrative speculation, a bet, a proper retrospective narrative with Beginning, Middle, and End (BME) can be constituted"

Antenarrative has not yet enrolled the entire cast of characters. It has not yet become real-ized in the world of objects and processes and [| institutional systems]. Antenarrative has not yet changed the social context, but is a bet that it will. Antenarrating means you are trying to recontextualize or decontextualize. Antenarratives depend upon an expanding sociometry, growing a network of actors to work in bits of context in order to send the antenarrative along its way to becoming a story. Antenarratives seduce interests and enroll characters in continuous chains of dramatization. They do this because it takes theatrics to real-ize the antenarrative and thereby become narrative. The antenarrative translates its contexts into its emerging cohesion. Antenarrative morphs as it travels, moves, and does its rhizomatics.

Antenarrative Theory

The word antenarrative oritionally had a double meaning. The adverbial use of the word ante combined with narrative, or antenarrative, means earlier than narrative or to place a bet on potential future narratives. The first meaning is a before narrative, a sort of proto narrative. The second meaning of antenarrative is a bet narrative. This is a concatonation of the concepts of ante and narrative.

Ante is a bet, as in gambling and speculation. Narrative is not the same as story or living stories. A narrative, in this context, is something that is narrated in retrospective, or backward-looking, sensemaking, such as in definitions narrative sensemaking (Weick, 1995) or narrative as emplotment with beginning, middle and end (as perAristotle, 350 BCE). Living Story is an account of incidents or events and relationships to people in other living stories, all unfolding in the dialogic concept of "in-the-moment-of-Beingness" . From this perspective, the retrospective narrative comes after and adds more plot and tighter coherence, which reduces the variety found in life to a simple time line. Living stories, are what Mikhail Bakhtin calls "polylogic manner of the story.", a concept that builds on Heteroglossia. Jacques Derrida also treats story as not the same phenomenon as narrative. From this perspective, for example, each "story" (and each occurrence of the word "story," (of itself), each story in the story) is part of the other, makes the other part (of itself), is at once larger and smaller than itself, includes itself without including (or comprehending) itself, identifies itself with itself even as it remains utterly different from its homonym (ibid.). These philosophical takes on the meaning of story form the theoretical basis upon which the multiple meanings of the concept antenarrative is based.

Further, story and narrative as "difference" and Derridian "Différance" is being reclaimed indigenous scholars' work Decolonizing Western narrative. There are also gender differences being reclaimed, such as in the work of gender-telling . Male dominated institutions sort out gender differently in the interplay of living stories, and institutionalized [narrative orders]. These institutional narratives become hegemonic in their dominance of living story diversity. Because of this Antenarrating something different is problematic.

Sometimes having a stabilized, or what Czarniawska calls a "petrified narrative" is the basis of strong organizational culture. However, it can also prevent adaptability. An example is Disney's strategy meetings of asking "What would Walt do?", such that lead to a linear narrative that prevented change .

Antenarrative can be a future oriented, or prospective, form of sensemaking. Because of this, antenarrative can transform the future with storytelling by projecting the past narrative directions into the future. Some aspects of prospective sensemaking via antenarrative rely on a linear, aristotle beginning-middle-end, antenarrative or a cyclic antenarrative that just repeats a cycle of stages.

Alternative forms of antenarrative are spiral and rhizomatic/assemblage forms. they do not behave the same way linear prospective antenarratives do. Spiral antenarratives are in the middle and in-between narratives (Boje, 2001: 293), thus refusing to connect together a linear beginning, middle, end (BME) coherence. Upward and downward spirals are examples of such antenarrative spirals (Boje, 2007).

In work with antenarrative Boje has now identified four types of antenarrative. The four antenarrative forms are linear, cyclic, spiral and rhizomatic. Linear antenarrative examples in globalization are attempt to create a road to the top and disturbing race to the bottom. A cyclic can be found Plato's work in Republic which suggests the cycle of Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, and Tyranny, which then heads back to Timocracy. Nietzsche objected to such a cycle, preferring eternal return of any of these, particularly tyranny, when the constellation of forces recurred. Rhizomatic antenarrative following rhizomatic theory of Deleuze and Guattari (1987) looks at the holographic aspects, at antenarrating in all directions (as in the rhizomatic shoot the moves above ground, the roots moving below ground, until an obstacle is encountered. Obstacles are grasps, moved, and even cracked.

Antenarratology

Antenarratology is defined as the study of antenarratives as they interact with stories and narratives. Whereas retrospective narratives usually have beginnings, middles, and ends (BMEs) stories are more part of the living fabric of the social. They are more co-created, unfolding in the present moment of Being. Further they are prospective in that they look into the future of the potential social world. Critical antenarratology is a method of traceing and deconstruct an ongoing interweaving antenarratation. This is is a process of continual composing and self-deconstructing.

Antenarratives collect events and characters into a sort of psychic economy, where in the characters trade emotionally with one-another. Antenarrative movement continues as long as their is context left to transform. Antenarratives feed on new contexts, they consume contexts and recontextualize them. Antenarratives stay in movement until they become Framed within a dominant storyline. Dissemination of an antenarrative can occure through such mechanisms as sharing a bit of urban legend or passing along a gossip. Despite this, antenarratives have the potential to change the dominant story-line which seeks to frame it. The path an antenarrative follows can be thought of in terms of a the story of its journey. Antenarratology is the unearthing of said stories when they leave marks along their path.

Antenarrative death

Antenarratives die. They unravel and re-ravel the contexts they traverse. Antenarratives are really quite dangerous; they can stampede the herd. "The collective fear of a heard in flight is the oldest and perhaps commonest example of a crowd state" (Canetti, 1963: 309). Antenarratives definitely affect and infect crowds. Some change the rhythm of the crowd. Antenarratives can assemble crowds and disassemble hierarchies and propel some novel crowd into existence; they rally around the emerging antenarrative.

Antenarrative motion

Antenarratives are in motion, awake, always on the move, setting off along un-prescribed passageways. They seem to jumped across prohibited blocks. Surrounding an antenarrative with prohibitions to its sharing, ignites its traverse. Antenarratives change in composition as they traverse contexts and passageways. Antenarratives can split off elements, and incorporate new ones, as the tale extends with accumulated and dragged along debris. As Kierkegaard (1997: 306) posits, "life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards." This applies to Storytelling Organizations (Boje, 2008), since they are forever creating a collective memory of themselves in stories.

Antenarrative, Narrative, and Story

The Paradigm Differences over Antenarrative, Narrative, and Story - Yannis Gabriel (2000), Barbara Czarniawska (1997) and Boje (2001a) have paradigm differences. Gabriel thinks my terse stories and my fragmented antenarratives are not "proper" stories. I definitely agree with his point that story is something more than narrative, in its expressive and immediate experience qualities. Czarniawska (1997, 1998, 2004), like so many others (e.g. Russian Formalism) privileges narrative over story. In here 2004 book she does acknowledge the emergent sort of story sensemaking

Antenarrative Examples

According to David Boje: Enron, for example, its antenarrating recruited and abandoned characters, themes, frames, dialog, and spectacles as Enron took flight to become the darling of the New Economy, then the monster lurking inside the abyss of its own collapse. At each turn, Enron's Antenarratives seemed to illuminate, but in the end the facade was all that remained. Antenarratives take on a speculative value since they are quite ironic; setting forth in reversals, shattering dualities, then aligning with superficialities. Antenarratives flee their possessors; ask Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay. Enron was dragged kicking and screaming through all kinds of post-collapse spectacles; grand dramas of public inquiry took place in the Congressional hearings. Enron's global spectacle (the hero of the Internet Economy) become a megaspectacle (a set of scandals). Enron's succession of public spectacles were quite antenarrative; little pre-narrations seemed to catch fire in the public imagination; where is the sex scandal at Enron; Did the president know? Did Fastow know the off-the-balance-sheet partnerships was just a spectacle facade? Enron antenarratives were media currency, the obsessive interest of millions of spectators. When the media glare dropped of the Enron megaspectacle scandals, the tired old concentrated and diffuse spectacles (Debord, 1967) ensued. "Oh Enron, that was the exception" said one antenarrative, "it does not mean that deregulation is not a good thing for energy marketeers."

There must be different types of antenarratives.

1. The boomerang antenarrative that changes direction and returns to where it took off.
2. The loose-end antenarrative that seems to unravel the entire mask, or un-mask the masquerade.
3. The white noise antenarrative the moves in and out of being, but never quite goes away.
4. The transformative

All kinds of work organizations, be they bureaucratic, postmodern, quest, or chaos/complexity -- all of them have antenarratives that take flight. A few land to become full-blown stories that pare part of the life script of the organization. The bureaucracy tries to let plans fly that will change their work processes and idea systems (ideological Frames). The Chaos/Complexity firm has this antenarrative floating about that somehow people can manage at the edge of the abyss, and by staying at the edge (but not falling in) can realize all kinds of efficiencies and untapped revenues that the bureaucratic beast could never grasp. The post-modern antenarrative is that the modern organization can become what it is not yet being. All those quests that work organizations undertake, each has an antenarrative beginning, but how few every get very far away from home, and fewer still return with the magic elixir. Antenarratives aspire to be frame-breaking, frame changing, but many never take flight. By Frame I mean the Septet type of Frame.

Antenarratology

Antenarratology - is defined as the study of antenarratives in interplay with stories and narratives. Whereas retrospective narratives typically have beginnings, middles, and ends (BMEs) stories are more part of the living fabric of the social, more co-created, unfolding in the present moment of Being, and prospective into the future of the social. Critical antenarratology is a method to trace and deconstruct an ongoing interweaving antenarrating this is always composing and self-deconstructing.

Antenarratives have five dimensions (Boje, 2001: 3-5). 1. Antenarrative is about the Tamara of storytelling. Tamara is a play where ten characters unfold their stories before a walking, sometimes running, audience that fragments into small groups to chase characters and storylines from room to room. 2. Antenarrative is a collective (prospective) memory before it becomes reified into the organization story, or consensual (official) narrative. 3. Antenarrative directs our analytic attention to the flow of storytelling, as lived experience before the narrative requirements of beginnings, middles or endings. 4. Antenarrative gives attention to the speculative, the ambiguity of sensemaking and guessing as to what is happening in the flow of experience. 5. Antenarrating is both before story and a bet of prospective-transformation through supplements, dropping and picking up meaning in each successive context, and remaining unfinalized.

The value of antenarratives is that they occur in social networks. Their archeologies are only beginning to be charted. In prior work antenarratives have been thought to pick up and jettison context, morphing over time, as them move through social networks.

Antenarrative in Management Research

The first ever use of the term 'antenarrative' is Boje (2001a) Narrative Methods for Organization and Communication Research (London: Sage). Antenarrative has a double meaning: ante as before, and ante as a bet. Antenarrative is before the stability of narrative, and it is a bet that a prospective (future oriented) transformation will occur. Whereas narrative is mainly retrospective. Antenarrative is about shaping possibilities for the future. In 2001 Boje delivered two papers in Europe on antenarrative (Boje, 2001b,c). In 2002, he also developed the theory in a keynote address to the Discourse Conference in a paper delivered on Enron antenarratives, that became the basis for a coauthored article in Organization Studies Journal (Boje, Rosile, Durant, & Luhman, 2004).

There has been increasing interest in antenarrative theory and research since Boje's theory building and research on antenarrative (Boje, 2001a,b,c, 2002) and subsequent collaborative work 2005, 2007a, b, c, 2008, forthcoming) and work with colleagues (Boje & Rosile, 2002, 2003; Boje, Rosile, Durant, & Luhman, 2004; Boje, Rosile & Gardner, 2007), such as important work done with the initial our formulations (Barge 2004; Collins & Rainwater, 2005; Vickers, 2005; Yolles, 2007).

Walter Benjamin's (1936) Illuminations examines the rise of the novel and the decline of storytelling. Benjamin found industrialization and standardization as well as a decline in the value of experience as the likely culprits in this unfortunate trend. The differences between stories and novels are highlighted along with some salient examples. In Benjamin's estimation, Paul Valery, epitomizes the qualities of a storyteller. Benjamin expands upon Valery's observations about the decline of the idea of eternity: "It has been observable for a number of centuries how in the general consciousness the thought of death has declined in omnipresence and vividness." Benjamin also comments on the decline of the ability for people to listen and a loss of the value of craftsmanship, essential elements of a culture of storytelling.

This three-ness of time is the essence of storytelling (narrative, living story, & antenarrative). Currie (1998) makes the point that narrative is a bit too eager to put storytelling into the past, and claims this is happening at an accelerated rate. If this is true, then narrative transforms present of living story networks to the past without much noticing, and in its future perfect sense, narrative looks back from the future in a linear path (BME).

Antenarrative Theory, Methodology, and Practice Development

According to David BoJe, There are four theorized types of antenarrative: linear, cyclic, spiral, and assemblage (rhizomes). These antenarrative-types are in intra-play with 'living story' and 'narrative.' Narrative is defined as a retrospective-sensemaking of a more distant past. Living story is defined as a more immediate-present-sensemaking in the Here and Now, of a place in existence, and in relationality with others' living stories. Antenarrative (Boje, 2001a, 2008a, 2011a) is defined as a double-meaning: as a 'bet' (an ante) on a probable future that generates the impetus for action-taking to bring that anticipated future into Being-Becoming, that is 'before' (ante to) the coherence of stabilized narrative order. In Boje (2011a: 3) I make these introductory distinctions, however, I mean the three manners of storytelling to be intra-activity with one another and inseparable from materiality.

The linear-antenarrative conforms to a linear-logic by bringing a series of retrospective-narrative-representations and impressions that come to bear on the prospective-linear-antenarrative-sensemaking of an anticipated future, and by engaging in action-taking that brings that possible future into being. In short, the past and future are in connection by way of retrospection-prospection sensemaking.

The cyclic-antenarrative conforms to a stage-by-stage logic of retrospective-narrative-representations and impressions that come to bear on the prospective-cyclic-antenarrative-sensemaking of an anticipate future of stage-by-stage recurrence. Again, the past and future are in connection by way of retrospective-prospection sensemaking.

The spiral-antenarrative conforms to a dialectic of deviation-amplificiation with deviation-counteraction, in what Bakhtin (1981) calls heteroglossia forces of language and discourse, of which antenarrative is very much a participant. This is a connection between more immediate-emergence-sensemaking and a prospective-sensemaking that anticipated a possible future by enacting particular sorts of actions, iteratively.

The assemblage-antenarrative is more what Deleuze and Guattari (1987) term a rhizomatic process. Here again, the sensemaking is immediate-present-sensemaking in relationship to prospective-anticipation-sensemaking.

Mood Duration and Antenarratives

Kitaro (1987: 65) theorizes that "independent concrete experience arises from the interplay of quantity and quality." He does not want to separate mind and matter into a duality, as is done in Cartesian approaches.

"To think that only psychological phenomena are immediate is the result of a deduction which proceeds from the distinction of the worlds of mind and matter as independent realities and sees sensation as more basic than thought" (Kitaro, 1987: 60). He wants to preserve intuition in the act of mood-impressions as a (Bergsonian) duration of a mood that is a qualitative differentiation, and a priori (in Kantian sense) to taking action. It is this mood-duration that is related to a action-based approach to antenarrative action-taking that shapes one probable future out of a field of possible futures. The intensive quality of the mood-impression, of for example, a linear-antenarrative is a prelude to a creative system of action.

In the continuous motion of overcoming discontinuity, a spiral-antenarrative, at any given instant, is a moving material-storytelling (an intra-activity, in Barad's 2007 theory of agential realism of quantum physics). The spiral occupies a certain timespacemattering position, and is in some interval in-between several other positions that are even nearer together. The spiral-antenarrative mood-impression-duration prompts by anticipation the creative action that contributes to self-organizing, self-development, and self-generativity of the movement itself in upsurge, downsurge, deviation-amplificiation, or deviation-counteraction. There are mood-impressions of these qualities of movement and direction between positions that are traceable and discernible by participants. The mood-sensations contribute to acts of creating continuity and discontinuity, affirmation and negation, and their vice-versa, according to my reading of Kitaro.

Among the various antenarrative-types there is an intra-activity of mood-intensive-duration experience and the collective negation of action of a storytelling organization. The antenarrative-types in their intra-play are operative in the material world and its intra-activity with the storytelling world. This in a Kitaro (1970) sense is dialectal affirmation-qua-negation and negation-qua-affirmation. Storytelling is not therefore independent of the material world of tonality, corporeality, and this includes forensically thing-storytelling. The ontological constituting activity of antenarrative-compellent action-taking shapes the mood-impression and also shapes the material world, be it man-made or Natural.

Bibliography of Published Work

Barge, J.K. (2004) `Antenarrative and Managerial Practice' , Communication Studies 55(1): 106-27.

Boje, D.M. (2001a). Narrative Methods for Organizational and Communication Research, London: Sage.

Boje, D. M. (2004a). Grotesque Method. Published in Proceedings (edited by Henri Savall, Marc Bonnet & Michel Peron) of First International Cosponsored Conference, Research methods Division, Academy of Management: Crossing Frontiers in Quantitative and Qualitative Research methods. Vol. II pp. 1085-1114. Lyon France, Presentation March 19 2004; paper written February 1, 2004; revised Mar 11. Copy on line at http://peaceaware.com/McD/

Boje, D. M. (2004b). Regenerating Ronald McDonald with the Method of Grotesque Realism. Published, pp. 752-756 Business Research Yearbook, Vol. XI 2004 edited by Carolyn Gardner, Jerry Biberman & Abbass Alkhafaji. Paper about the play, and the play presented in San Antonio Texas on Mar 26 2004 Copy on line at http://peaceaware.com/McD/

Boje, D. M. (2004c). Architectonics of McDonald’s Cohabitation with Wal-Mart: Critique of critical and mainstream theory and research perspectives. March 2 2004; Revised April 3 2004. Published in conference proceedings of Critical Perspectives on International Business Programme for Workshop, Durham Business School, UK; Paper presented Mon Apr 5 2004 in teleconference format Copy on line at http://peaceaware.com/McD/

Boje. D. M. (2005). Empire Reading of Manet's Execution of Maximilian: Critical Visual Aesthetics and Antenarrative Spectrality. Tamara Journal. Vol 4 (4): 118-134. http://peaceaware.com/388/articles/20052.pdf

Boje, D. M. (2007a). Chapter 13 Living Story: From Wilda to Disney, pp.330-354. Handbook of Narrative Inquiry: Mapping a New Methodology. Edited by Jean Clandinin, London: Sage.

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Boje, D. M. (2011). The Future of Storytelling in Organizations: An Antenarrative Handbook. London: Routledge (release date February 23, 2011).

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Future of Storytelling and Organizations: An Antenarrative Handbook, 432 pages. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415873918/

Contents Introduction to Agential Antenarratives That Shape the Futureof Organizations 1 DAVID M. BOJE

PART I Individual, Gender, and Group Antenarratives Introduction to Part I 23

1 Antenarrational Presuppostitions: A Philosophical Refl ection on Responsible Use of Power and (Ante)narrative 29 FRITS SCHIPPER AND BARBARA FRYZEL

2 Antenarratives of Negotiated Diversity Management 47 JAWAD SYED AND DAVID M. BOJE

3 The Tesseract Antenarrative Model: Mapping Storytelling to Multi-dimensional Factor Lattices in Mathematics 67 DIANE WALKER

4 The Antenarrative of Ethics and the Ethics of Antenarratives 87 GRACE ANN ROSILE

5 The Creative Spirit of the Leader’s Soul: Using Antenarratives to Explain Metanoia Experiences 101 KEVIN GRANT

6 Understanding Legal Antenarratives 117 MAJELLA O’LEARY AND KIM ECONOMIDES

PART II Organization and Writing Antenarratives Introduction to Part II 13`

7 Living Story and Antenarrative in Organizational Accidents 137 JO A. TYLER

8 Antenarrative and Narrative: The Experiences of Actors Involved in the Development and Use of Information Systems 148 LYNETTE DREVIN AND DARREN DALCHER

9 Strategy as Antenarrative Complexity 163 YUE CAI-HILLON, DAVID M. BOJE, AND CLARINDA DIR

10 Antenarratives, Strategic Alliances, and Sensemaking: Engagement and Divorce Without Marriage between Two Brazilian Air Carriers Firms 176 SERGIO LUIS SELOTI JR. AND MÁRIO AQUINO ALVES

11 Visual/Picture as Antenarratives: Sketching the Research Process 188 TEPPO SINTONEN AND TOMMI AUVINEN

12 Narratives: A Love Story 201 ANNA LINDA MUSACCHIO ADORISIO

PART III Antenarratives and Organization Change Introduction to Part III 215

13 Survival Toolkit for Sociotechnical Project Complexity 221 STEVE KING

14 Narratives, Paradigms, and Change 241 GERHARD FINK AND MAURICE YOLLES

15 Antenarratives of Change in Mexican Innovation Networks 253 ENRIQUE CAMPOS-LÓPEZ, ALENA URDIALES-KALINCHUK, AND HILDA G. HERNÄNDEZ

16 Connecting Antenarrative and Narrative to Solving Organizational Problems 268 NICHOLAS SNOWDEN

17 Antenarrative Writing—Tracing and Representing Living Stories 284 KENNETH MØLBJERG JØRGENSEN

18 Tales of Merger Survivors 298 DANIEL DAUBER AND GERHARD FINK

PART IV National and Globalizing Antenarratives Introduction to Part IV 315

19 Storytelling Narrative Marginality—On Becoming a Global Human 317 JEFF LEINAWEAVER

20 The Rhetoric of Toxic Assets: An Antenarrative Analysis 334 WILLIAM L. SMITH AND DAVID M. BOJE

21 Well-Timed Stories: Rhetorical Kairos and Antenarrative Theory 347 RICHARD HERDER

22 The Evolutive and Interactive Actor Polygon in the Theater of Organizations 366 HENRI SAVALL, VÉRONIQUE ZARDET, AND MICHEL PÉRON

Postscript—An Antenarrative Theory of Socioeconomic in Intervention Research 383 DAVID M. BOJE

PART VI.Working papers on antenarrative

Berendsen, W.T.M, 2010. A phronesis antenarrative about the understanding of money and usage of money in more phronetic ways, to be downloaded here http://wilvon.com/download_center/index.php?TheMoneyGame1.pdf Berendsen, W.T.M. (2010). Towards a reenchanted society through storytelling and phronesis antenarrating, to be downloaded here http://wilvon.com/download_center/index.php?Rechantingsociety1.pdf

Boje, D. M. (2001b). Flight of Antenarrative in Phenomenal Complexity Theory, Tamara, Storytelling Organization Theory. September 20th, paper to honor Professor Hugo Letiche and his work on Phenomenal Complexity Theory, for the September 24th and 25th Conference on Complexity and Consciousness at Huize Molenaar (Korte Nieuwstraat 6) in the old center of Utrecht, Netherlands. http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/papers/ante/flight_of_antenarrative.htm

Boje, D. M. (2001c). “Antenarrating, Tamara, and Nike Storytelling.” Paper prepared for presentation at “Storytelling Conference” at the School of Management; Imperial College, 53 Prince’s Gate, Exhibition Road, London, July 9th, 2001. On line at http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/papers/ethnostorytelling.htm

Boje, D. M. (2002). "Critical Dramaturgical Analysis of Enron Antenarratives and Metatheatre". Plenary presentation to 5th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: From Micro-Utterances to Macro-Inferences, Wednesday 24th - Friday 26th July (London).

Boje, D. M. (2001b). Flight of Antenarrative in Phenomenal Complexity Theory, Tamara, Storytelling Organization Theory. September 20th, paper to honor Professor Hugo Letiche and his work on Phenomenal Complexity Theory, for the September 24th and 25th Conference on Complexity and Consciousness at Huize Molenaar (Korte Nieuwstraat 6) in the old center of Utrecht, Netherlands. http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/papers/ante/flight_of_antenarrative.htm

Boje, D. M. (2010). Towards a postcolonial storytelling theory that interrogates tribal peoples’ Material-Agential-Storytelling ignored in management and organization studies. Under review, and working paper available from dbojeATnmsu.edu

Boje, D. M. (2100). Quantum Physics of Storytelling. On Line Book - Click here 200 plus pages.

Camille-Strand, A. M. (2010). Material storytelling as identity re-work. Paper presented to the April 2010 meeting of Standing Conference for Management and Organizational Inquiry (sc’MOI). Tobey, D. H. (2007). Narrative's Arrow: Story sequences and organizational trajectories in founding stories. Paper presented at the Standing Conference on Management and Organizational Inquiry, Las Vegas, NV. Tobey, D. H. (2008). Storying crisis: What neuroscience can teach us about group decision making. Paper presented at the Southwest Academy of Management, Houston, TX.

PART VII - Antenarrative Websites

Boje, D. M. (2100). Quantum Physics of Storytelling. On Line Book - Click here 200 plus pages.

See MORE ON ANTENARRATIVE (an intro)

Antenarratives of McDonald's, McDonaldland, & McDonaldization http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/690/papers/Antenarrative%20in%20Management%20research%20May%2014%2005.pdf Berendsen, W.T.M. 2010. A phronesis antenarrative about the understanding of money and usage of money in more phronetic ways, to be downloaded here http://wilvon.com/download_center/index.php?TheMoneyGame1.pdf Berendsen, W.T.M. (2010). Towards a reenchanted society through storytelling and phronesis antenarrating, to be downloaded here http://wilvon.com/download_center/index.php?Rechantingsociety1.pdf