A bold investigation into a challenging area of study that provides an innovative exploration of our understanding of the textual nature of organizational life,and considers the consequences of textual nature for organizational studies.

Introduction: Text, Organization and Identity, Stephen Linstead Part One: Reading the Research Text Management She Wrote: Organization Studies and Detective Stories, Barbara Czarniawska Managing Metaphorically, Ian Lennie Browsing the Culture: Membership and Intertextuality at a Mormon Bookstore, Bryan C. Taylor Representation of Organizational Change in Ron Howard's Gung Ho: The Role of Speech Acts and Conversation, Joel Foreman and Tojo Thachenkery Text(s) from Place, Space & Non-place: Discourses of Poland, Hugo Letiche Organizing Multiple Spacetimes in a Colonial Context: Indigeneity and White Australian Nationalism at the Melbourne Museum, Goldie Osuri & Bobby Banerjee Part Two: Sampling Genres Protext: The Morphoses of Identity, Heterogeneity and Synolon, Klaus Harju Organizing the Past: A History and its (De)Construction, Alan Berkeley Thomas Eleven Characters in Search of an Ethic, or the Spirit of Capitalism, Ken Starkey Dramaturgy, Dialogue and Organizing: Scripting a (Theatrical) Play on Words, Cliff Oswick, Iain L.Mangham, Tom Keenoy, David Grant & Peter Anthony A 'Sampled' Account of Organization: Being a De-Authored, Reflexive Parody of Organization/Writing, Robert Westwood Circling the Square: Stories of an Unsettled Self, Robert Grafton Small