ABSTRACT
We began this volume by noticing that whilst organizational storytelling research is mature, after almost three decades of empirical research, some blank spots are evident on the theoretical and practical mapping of storytelling organizations. We suggested that it was now timely to ponder over the problem of what might be currently missing, invisible, or unsaid. So, in focusing this volume on the notion of untold stories we sought to provide an opening that could celebrate seminal insights into this vibrant field of organizational storytelling whilst, at the same time, offer a threshold to glimpse future research trajectories. It was always our intention to discover what might happen if we raised the trope of the untold and allowed it to percolate and simmer. This volume is one product of such seepage and simmering. As this volume ranges across matters of time, space, consciousness, imagery, editing, and active imagination—it would seem that the glimpsed future for untold story studies is an inter-disciplinary space, somewhat messy, seemingly open, and rather precarious.
