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Tamara Revisited: PERVIEW, SEAM, and the Storytelling Challenge of the Digital Multiverse
Tamara Revisited: PERVIEW, SEAM, and the Storytelling Challenge of the Digital Multiverse

Author(s): David M. Boje
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Social Theory, Management and complex organizations
Published by: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
Keywords: Tamara-Land; storytelling organizations; PERVIEW; SEAM; fractal change management; antenarrative; hidden costs; embodied restorying; energy-based coaching; mirror effect; Disney; organizational dramaturgy;

Summary/Abstract: This article re-engages the foundational metaphor of Tamara - originally a play and now a methodological orientation toward the polyphonic, fragmented nature of storytelling in organizations - by integrating it with two complementary methodologies: PERVIEW (Processes of Embodied Restorying with the VIEW framework) and SEAM (Socio-Economic Approach to Management). As digital technologies, AI, and hybrid workplaces reconfigure how people experience time, space, and communication, storytelling alone becomes insufficient. The article revisits the metaphor of "Tamara-Land" through the lens of Disney as a living fractal of control narratives and improvisational storywork. Drawing on recent work in fractal change management, mirror interventions, and embodied narrative coaching, the article proposes a convergence of PERVIEW and SEAM to access not just spoken narratives, but also the subterranean fields of organizational meaning-making - those shaped by trauma, emotion, energetic resonance, and hidden costs. This results in a transdisciplinary methodology for diagnosing and transforming organizations as multisensory, multiscripted, and multiversal entities.

  • Issue Year: 22/2025
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 50-55
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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