Metaphor and organizations /
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Metaphors of organization: scope and application. Some consequences of taking Gareth Morgan seriously / Iain L. Mangham
- Metaphor in the development of organization theory / Geoffrey MacKechnie and Gemma Donnelly-Cox
- The Triune-brain metaphor: the evolution of the living organization / Gerrit Broekstra
- Metaphors in organizational research: of embedded embryos, paradigms and powerful people / Stewart R. Clegg and John T. Gray
- Part II: Metaphors of organizing: language and discourse. Metaphors in popular management discourse: the case of corporate restructuring / Richard Dunford and Ian Palmer
- Metaphor in organization theory: following in the footsteps of the poet? / Dawn E. Inns and Philip J. Jones
- Metaphors and metaphorization in organizational analysis: thinking beyond the thinkable / Robert Chia
- Part III: Metaphors in organizational settings: impact and outcomes. Metaphors, metaphoric fields and organizational change / Robert J. Marshak
- Telling tales: management consultancy as the art of story telling / Timothy Clark and Graeme Salaman
- In the image of man: organizational action, competence and learning / Erik Døving
- Can you resist a dream? Evangelical metaphors and the appropriation of emotion / Heather Höpfl and Julie Maddrell
- Part IV: Metaphor and organizations: issues and directions. The Organization of metaphors and the metaphors of organization: where are we and where do we go from here? / Cliff Oswick and David Grant
- An Afterword: is there anything more to be said about metaphor? / Gareth Morgan.