David Boje of the University of New Mexico is one of the preeminent scholars studying organizations through their storytelling.
He has produced a nice annotated bibliography on storytelling and consulting.
I admit that I find Boje’s scholarship a bit densely packed and intellectually challenging.
He also issues a rather scathing critique of such well-known approaches to organizational storytelling as that espoused by Steve Denning, describing Denning’s book, The Springboard, this way: “A fairly silly approach to story, as if a leader could just craft one and change the whole organization with it.”
I can see a need to bring together the wisdom of scholars like Boje and Czarniawska with that of applied paractitioners like Denning and Annette Simmons.