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Heracleous, Loizos Th. and Jacobs, Claus D.. (2008) Understanding organizations through embodied metaphors. Organization Studies, Vol.29 (No.1). pp. 45-78. ISSN 0170-8406
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840607086637
Abstract
We outline the dominant, positivist approach to conceptualizing and researching organizations through multi-level research that views levels as independently existing, hierarchically nested entities, and problematize this view by offering an alternative approach based on embodied realism. We operationalize this approach through a study of three organization development workshops where organizational actors constructed artifacts we label embodied metaphors. We propose that analysis of embodied metaphors can enable access to actors' first-order conceptions of organizational levels and related organizational dimensions and reveals alternative qualities and interrelations among them; can support a clinical approach to organizations; provides a window to organizational, divisional or task identities; and poses substantial challenges to established conceptions of ontology and method in organization theory.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Marketing & Strategic Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Organizational behavior, Metaphor -- Social aspects, Organization -- Research, Organizational change |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Organization Studies |
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 0170-8406 |
| Date: | January 2008 |
| Volume: | Vol.29 |
| Number: | No.1 |
| Number of Pages: | 34 |
| Page Range: | pp. 45-78 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1177/0170840607086637 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/30553 |
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