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Metaphor and organizations / edited by David Grant and Cliff Oswick.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1996.Description: xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0803976291
  • 0803976305
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.406 MET 1996
Contents:
Introduction: Getting the Measure of Metaphors /David Grant and Cliff Oswick -- 1. Some Consequences of Taking Gareth Morgan Seriously / Iain L. Mangham --2. Metaphor in the Development of Organization Theory /Geoffrey MacKechnie and Gemma Donnelly-Cox -- 3. The Triune-Brain Metaphor: The Evolution of the Living Organization / Gerrit Broekstra -- 4. Metaphors in Organizational Research: Of Embedded Embryos, Paradigms and Powerful People / Stewart R. Clegg and John T. Gray -- 5. Metaphors in Popular Management Discourse: The Case of Corporate Restructuring /Richard Dunford and Ian Palmer -- 6. Metaphor in Organization Theory: Following in the Footsteps of the Poet? / Dawn E. Inns and Philip J. Jones -- 7. Metaphors and Metaphorization in Organizational Analysis: Thinking Beyond the Thinkable / Robert Chia -- 8. Metaphors, Metaphoric Fields and Organizational Change / Robert J. Marshak.
9. Telling Tales: Management Consultancy as the Art of Story Telling / Timothy Clark and Graeme Salaman -- 10. In the Image of Man: Organizational Action, Competence and Learning / Erik Doving -- 11. Can You Resist a Dream? Evangelical Metaphors and the Appropriation of Emotion / Heather Hopft and Julie Maddrell -- 12. The Organization of Metaphors and the Metaphors of Organization: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here? / Cliff Oswick and David Grant -- 13. An Afterword: Is There Anything More to be Said About Metaphor? / Gareth Morgan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Getting the Measure of Metaphors /David Grant and Cliff Oswick -- 1. Some Consequences of Taking Gareth Morgan Seriously / Iain L. Mangham --2. Metaphor in the Development of Organization Theory /Geoffrey MacKechnie and Gemma Donnelly-Cox -- 3. The Triune-Brain Metaphor: The Evolution of the Living Organization / Gerrit Broekstra -- 4. Metaphors in Organizational Research: Of Embedded Embryos, Paradigms and Powerful People / Stewart R. Clegg and John T. Gray -- 5. Metaphors in Popular Management Discourse: The Case of Corporate Restructuring /Richard Dunford and Ian Palmer -- 6. Metaphor in Organization Theory: Following in the Footsteps of the Poet? / Dawn E. Inns and Philip J. Jones -- 7. Metaphors and Metaphorization in Organizational Analysis: Thinking Beyond the Thinkable / Robert Chia -- 8. Metaphors, Metaphoric Fields and Organizational Change / Robert J. Marshak.

9. Telling Tales: Management Consultancy as the Art of Story Telling / Timothy Clark and Graeme Salaman -- 10. In the Image of Man: Organizational Action, Competence and Learning / Erik Doving -- 11. Can You Resist a Dream? Evangelical Metaphors and the Appropriation of Emotion / Heather Hopft and Julie Maddrell -- 12. The Organization of Metaphors and the Metaphors of Organization: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here? / Cliff Oswick and David Grant -- 13. An Afterword: Is There Anything More to be Said About Metaphor? / Gareth Morgan.

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