What Are We Playing at? Theatre, Organization, and the Use of Metaphor

By Joep Cornelissen. 2004

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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The Emergent Organization: Primary and Complex Metaphors in Theorizing about Organizations (2008, background): “…work on the topic of metaphor, many organizational scholars have argued that metaphors (ways of talking and thinking about one domain in terms of another) constitute one of the primary ways of framing and understanding the world of organizations (e.g. Cornelissen 2004, 2005; Putnam and Boys 2006).”
Construing Organizational Identity: The Role of Embodied Cognition (2010, background): “…substantiated experience and more abstract representational elements can be seen in emerging research on primary and complex metaphors (e.g. Cornelissen 2004, 2006; Cornelissen and Kafouros 2008), embodied realism (e.g. Harquail and King 2002; Heracleous and Jacobs 2008), and social…”
Metaphorical images of organization: How organizational researchers develop and select organizational metaphors (2005, background): “That is, when concepts are related from not too distant domains a metaphor often fails to break any new ground or generate new insights that were inconceivable before (cf. Cornelissen, 2004; Oswick et al., 2002).”
Understanding Organizations through Embodied Metaphors (2008, background): “…some partial resemblance, that metaphors allow some features of the tenor map onto some features of the vehicle, and that these mappings are reducible to literal propositions that, to be correct, have to correspond to the objective features of the world that they represent (Cornelissen 2004, 2006).”