Revisiting Metaphors of Organizational Communication

By Linda L. Putnam, S. Boys. 2006

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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The Emergent Organization: Primary and Complex Metaphors in Theorizing about Organizations (2008, background): “…literature on metaphors and their role in theoretical representations of organizations (e.g. Cornelissen 2004, 2005, 2006a; Morgan 2006; Oswick et al. 2002; Putnam and Boys 2006; Tsoukas 1991, 1993), there is very little on the origins and nature of metaphorical thinking about organizations.”
Sensemaking and sensegiving stories of jazz leadership (2012, background): “Stories, and narratives are significant components of such a discourse (see Putnam and Boys, 2006; Rhodes and Brown, 2005b; Vaara and Tienari, 2010).”
Metaphor in Organizational Research: Context, Modalities and Implications for Research — Introduction (2008, background): “…al. (1996) and Putnam and Boys (2006) have identified eight metaphors of organizational communication which together are meant ‘to reveal the assumptive ground of different research programmes and to cut across different levels of analysis and theoretical domains’ (Putnam and Boys 2006: 541–542).”
Overcoming the "Ideology of Openness": Probing the Affordances of Social Media for Organizational Knowledge Sharing (2013, background): “…tensions have been found to be productive in enabling the accomplishment of multiple goals since they enable organizational members to creatively attend to both poles of the opposition by transforming or transcending it and embracing both alternatives as ''both-and'' options (Putnam & Boys, 2006).”
A Temporal Perspective on Organizational Identity (2013, background): “Also, Putnam and Boys (2006) argue that stories and narratives serve as vehicles of contestation or vessels for conveying corporate meaning, whereas Martin et al. (1983) suggest that stories generate changes in organizations, partly because of the rich detail and multiple interpretations they…”
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication and small and medium sized enterprises: The governmentality dilemma of explicit and implicit CSR communication (2019, background): “Rather, meaning is constituted in and through social practices, where communication is the dynamic process of producing meaning, that is, ‘the site of meaning construction’ (Kuhn, 2012; see also Kuhn et al., 2017; Putnam and Boys, 2006).”