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| Tekijä: | Cornelissen, J. Harris, P. |
| Otsikko: | The Corporate Identity Metaphor: Perspectives, Problems and Prospects |
| Lehti: | Journal of Marketing Management
2001 : FEB, VOL. 17:1-2, p. 49-72 |
| Asiasana: | COMPANIES COMMUNICATION EMPIRICAL RESEARCH |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The metaphor of corporate identity may enlighten our theoretical understanding of corporate behaviour and communication, or, conversely, may mystify and distort our view of these affairs. The authors review the various metaphorical uses of the term and observe that much previous theorising has been based on deductions Manchester Metropolitan metaphorically transferred from theorising about human University identities, rather than being based on empirical observations. A number of explanations based on these deductions are criticised as theoretically naive and empirically false. The article reviews these misconceptions and identifies the theoretically as well as empirically legitimate ways to conceptualise the corporate identity metaphor. |
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