DAVID BOJE – genius, amazing Stories of the Storytelling Organization

Walt Disney enterprises are theorized as a storytelling organization in which an active-reactive interplay of premodern, modern, and postmodern discourses occur. A postmodern analysis of these multiple discourses reveals the marginalized voices and excluded stories of darker side of the Disney legend. Tamara, a play that is also a discursive metaphor, is used to demonstrate a plurivocal (multiple story interpretation) theory of competing organizational discourses. Subsequent sections address storytelling organizational theory, analyses of official accounts of Disney enterprises, and less well-known, even contrary, accounts. The implications for postmodern theory and future storytelling research projects are discussed.