How to Write Differently

Edited by Monika Kostera, Professor of Management, University of Warsaw, Poland, Guest Professor, Södertörn University, Sweden and Professeure Invitée à L'université Rennes, France

• Contents:Yiannis Gabriel: Foreword xiiiIntroduction 1Monika Kostera1 Resolving the ambivalences of editing a journal 9Arndt Sorge2 What to write about? The parable of Diogenes 17Jerzy Kociatkiewicz3 Writing the personal 22Ilaria Boncori4 Literary machines and subjective narrators 34Piotr Graczyk5 Stories from the field and from the heart 44Sara Persson6 Making connections through poetry: A showering of wordsthat matter 54Matilda Dahl and Jenny Helin7 Untranslatable management, or the choice of idiom 67Ghislain Deslandes8 Art and social science: Anger, reflections, and possibilities 80Terrence Letiche and Hugo Letiche9 Caring reviews 88Monika Kostera10 Rethinking revisions: The art of devision 99Daniel Ericsson11 On reflective referencing 109Barbara Czarniawska12 Writing to be read, not for the stars 120Joanna Średnicka13 Reducing reductionism, halting holism – some reflectionson writing for humans 129Michał Izak14 Where to publish and not perish? 138Martyna Śliwa15 How to be a good editor – ten (very personal) commandments 147Annette Risberg16 ‘If you have any doubts, go to a library’ 149Tytus OlszewskiIndex

‘Nanni Moretti, the Italian film director, once said: “those who speak badly, think badly and live badly”. This masterly written book teaches us that this adage applies, and even more, to the written word. Academics have in their texts their most powerful weapon and sharpest tool. This book reminds us that we need to manage both with the deserved care and respect.’