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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.
Imagination and the Political Use of Images
Imagination and the Political Use of Images
Key Learning Points
- Learn that imagination is a resource that actors use to sustain, elicit, or impose ways of organizing through images.
- Learn that understanding imagination is important to examine how images are used in organizations.
- Learn that imagination is at the center of political struggles over the meanings of images.
- Examine four assumptions about how imagination and images can affect organizations.
- Identify the (hidden) interests behind four assumptions about the uses of images and imagination in organizations.
- Understand that images comprise more than just metaphors.
- Acknowledge the multiple imaginations in processes of organizing through images.
- Understand that politics is an inherent feature of the use of images in organizations.
Published 30 years ago, the groundbreaking ...
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