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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. doi:10.1177/0170840607086637 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 | ||||
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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 |
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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 | ||||
Official Date: | January 2008 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.29 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 34 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 45-78 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0170840607086637 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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