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| Author: | Cornelissen, J.P. Kafouros, M. |
| Title: | The emergent organization: Primary and complex metaphors in theorizing about organizations |
| Journal: | Organization Studies
2008 : VOL. 29:7, p. 957-978 |
| Index terms: | organization theory organizations |
| Freeterms: | metaphors |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | It is argued that complex metaphors (henceforth as: m-phs.) in organization (here as: org/s.) theory consist of smaller primary m-phs. or metaphorical (as: m-phal.) parts. Using examples from organization theory, it is shown a. complex m-phs. are made up of primary m-phs. often grounded in our embodied experiences as human beings, and that b. complex m-phs. can be dynamically elaborated, extended and reinterpreted in new ways. Thus, m-phal. thought emerges from primary m-phs., evolving over time. This is a perspective which is more open to changes in the social construction of org/s. than the traditional view of stable 'root' categories of m-phal. thought of the org/s. theory. |
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