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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.
Of Tropes, Totems, and Taboos Reflections on Morgan’s Images From a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Of Tropes, Totems, and Taboos Reflections on Morgan’s Images From a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Key Learning Points
- Recognize that Images of Organization occupies the cusp of modern and postmodern organization theory.
- Understand that metaphors fulfil a community-forming function in much the same way as totems are seen to operate in both classical and contemporary anthropology. In this way, Images presents a theory of organization that is at once dematerialized, iconic, and narratively embedded—foreseeing the narrative turn in organization theory.
- Take into account the translational implications of using Images as a training resource when working with participants in non-Anglophone settings.
- Realize that although there may be cultural patterns that inform a given national ...
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