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Gareth Morgan’s monumental book, Images of Organization, revolutionized the field of organization theory. In honor of Morgan’s classic text, this edited volume, Exploring Morgan’s Metaphors: Theory, Research, and Practice in Organizational Studies, illustrates how Morgan’s eight metaphors inform research, practice, and organizational intervention in a variety of contexts. Including contributions from well-known experts in their fields, specifically, Joep Cornelisen, Cliff Oswick, David Grant, and Gareth Morgan, this new text offers fresh perspectives and sets forth new metaphors for conceptualizing organizations in today’s workforce. Readers will gain insights and guidelines into the different ways that Morgan’s metaphors and metaphorical thinking can be used to better understand organizational life, as well as how to study and develop organizations.
Combining Metaphors to Understand New Organizational Phenomena
Combining Metaphors to Understand New Organizational Phenomena
Key Learning Points
- Obtain a brief overview about Morgan’s images and how they relate to organizational phenomena.
- Experience the value of Morgan’s images for understanding organizational dynamics in general through a metaphor building process.
- Gain brief insights into the theory of metaphor in organization research.
- Gain an understanding of the challenges of a new trend in business called integrated product-service systems (IPSS) as the case of application in this chapter.
- Become familiar with how to analyze metaphors on a quantitative empirical basis referred to individual actions and behavior.
- Learn about the domains-interaction model as an approach to utilize metaphors in order to understand and create meaning of organizational phenomena.
- Experience the high value of Morgan’s ...
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