ABSTRACT
Knowledge narratives keep us in place. Project narratives keep us dreaming, hoping and speculating and planning about a better day tomorrow, a better world: new, better technology in production and transport and new improved formats of organization. The Social Ontology Project has suggested that the language institution is a key to understanding both the power of narratives and the fragility of created organizations. People using the language in speech acting can establish hierarchical democratic, dictatorial and criminal organizations and can establish organizations that regulate language rules and use. The gap suggests that participation in the reasoning processes before decisions are made, in the struggle between alternative narratives for solving a problem, and access to gaps is an important arena for powerful actions. The idea, quite common in organization studies, that decisions are products of 'some agency' and 'some structure' is transcended in the 'active agents processing and acting on structures' idea.
