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| Author: | Tsoukas, H. |
| Title: | Analogical reasoning and knowledge generation in organization theory |
| Journal: | Organization Studies
1993 : VOL. 14:3, p. 323-346 |
| Index terms: | ORGANIZATION THEORY SCIENCE ORGANIZATIONS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper reviews and evaluates the cognitive status to which metaphors and analogies have been ascribed in the process of knowledge generation in a organization theory. Three perspectives are identified: metaphors as ways of thinking, metaphors as dispensable literary devices, and metaphors as potential ideological distortions. The main tenets of each one of them are reviewed and subsequently submitted to criticism. It is argued here that, despite their differing claims, the preceding perspectives converge on the assumption that there is a gap between metaphorical and scientific languages. |
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