Academics in the Organizational Storytelling Field

Israel's Yigal Chamish contacted me awhile back on the PhD research he (she? I'm sorry, Yigal; I don't know if you're male or female) is doing. "My topic is 'Executives as Storytellers,' Chamish writes, "and I am looking at executives who use storytelling within their organizations in order to communicate knowledge management. I am interesting on the issue of the tellers, the executives, to see how they develop stories and how they use them."

In this blog post, Chamish writes more about this research. Excerpt here:

“Executives as Storytellers for communicating knowledge management within organizations” - who else is researching this topic for PhD.? My research looks at the issue of “Executives as Storytellers for communicate knowledge management within organizations”. This Research is within ARU (Anglia Ruskin University) in the UK, and my supervisor is Prof. Vernon, N. Trafford from the Faculty of Education in ARU.
Embarking the PhD. research journey at the end of 2003, I am looking forward to accomplish my research and submitting my Thesis somewhere in mid or end of 2007.

Writing your Thesis is a fascinating and challenging journey, both personally and professionally. I must say that it is full of insightful discoveries and exploration, intellectually.

During my research, I was privileged to meet, correspond and exchange ideas with many of the “founding fathers” - researchers, writers, practitioners - of the school of thought in the fields of Knowledge Management and of Organizational Storytelling. Among them I can point Dave Snowden, Larry Prusak, Prof. Yiannis Gabriel, Prof. David Sims, Steve Denning, Noa Baum, and others.

Today I happened to read a post written by Marcel de Ruiter on his blog. He is looking for colleagues who research the blogosphere for PhD.

I am forwarding my address to all the community of my fellow PhD. researchers around the globe, who’s Thesis looks at Organizational Storytelling and Knowledge Management:

Let’s share knowledge, and practice knowledge management: let’s here and tell the story of Executives as storytellers.

Thank you