Metaphor and organizations /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grant, David, Oswick, Cliff
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.