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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.
Reflections on Images of Organization
Reflections on Images of Organization
This chapter is reprinted from Gareth Morgan’s feature article “Reflections on Images of Organization and Its Implications for Organizations and Environment,” published in 2011 in Organization & Environment, 24(4), 459–478. The title has been abbreviated for this book and the editors have inserted new headings to signal the content of each section.
In developing this feature, we asked Gareth Morgan to reflect on his classic book, Images of Organization (1986), a work known for its innovative framework for understanding and using metaphors in organizational studies. We asked him to comment on whether, adding up what has been written in the last 25 years, effective use has been made of the framework. As our exchange unfolded, ...
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