Exploring Morgan’s Metaphors

Anders Örtenblad is Professor of Organization and Leadership at the faculty of social sciences, Nord University, Norway. His main research interests are fashionable management ideas and their travel in space and time; organizational learning and the learning organization; management education, and the use of metaphors for and in the study of organizations and education. He has published articles in journals such as Human Relations, Management Learning, and International Journal of Management Reviews, and edited books published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Routledge and Sage.  Kiran Trehan is Professor of Leadership and Enterprise Development at Birmingham University. She has published a number of journal articles, policy reports, books and book chapters in the field. Her work has been supported by grants from research councils, government departments, regional and local agencies, and the private sector. She has been a Guest Editor for multiple journals and serves in national advisory roles that shape debates and policy in leadership, diversity, and enterprise development.Linda L. Putnam is a Research Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research interests include discourse analysis in organizations, negotiation and organizational conflict, and gender.  She is the co-editor of twelve books, including The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication (2014), Building Theories of Organization: The Constitutive Role of Communication (2009) and the author/co-author of over 180 journal articles and book chapters. She is a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, a Fellow of the International Communication Association, and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Management.

• Foreword - Gareth MorganPART I MAKING SENSE OF IMAGES OF ORGANIZATIONChapter 1. Introduction: From Theory to Application of Metaphor in Organizational Analysis - Linda Putnam, Anders Örtenblad, Kiran TrehanOverview of Morgan’s Images of OrganizationGenerating Organizational Metaphors in Theory and PracticeMoving From Theory to Application: The Structure of This BookChapter 2. Reflections on Images of Organization - Gareth MorganOn the Genesis of Images of OrganizationOn the Inspiration for Writing This BookOn Metaphor and How It WorksOn the Contributions That Images MakesOn Responses to Critiques of ImagesOn Developing New Metaphors for ResearchOn Criteria for Evaluating a MetaphorOn Dominant Metaphors in the FieldOn Additional Generative MetaphorsOn Metaphors and the Natural EnvironmentChapter 3. Morgan′s Legacy in Theorizing and Understanding Organizations - Joep CornelissenMorgan and MetaphorsHow Metaphors WorkMetaphors and Theories of OrganizationConclusionsPART II USING METAPHORS IN ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSISChapter 4. Approaches to Using Metaphors in Organizational Analysis: Morgan’s Metaphors and Beyond - Anders Örtenblad Framework: Seven DistinctionsA Typology of Approaches to Using Metaphors in Organizational AnalysisWhich Approach Is Preferable?The Chapters in Part II of This BookA Comment on Meta-Metaphors: Understanding How We Approach MetaphorsChapter 5. Viewing Organizations as Enablers of Happiness - Vikas Rai BhatnagarDynamic Modeling of Morgan′s MetaphorsGaps in Basic Assumptions of Current Metaphors: Toward Enriching ThemPerceived Negative Aspects of HumansConceptualization of Human Beings and Their PurposeNew Metaphor of Organizations as Enablers of HappinessChapter 6. Combining Metaphors to Understand New Organizational Phenomena - Thomas Süße, Bernd-Friedrich Voigt, Uta WilkensIPSS as the Case of ApplicationMetaphors as Frames of Understanding Organizational PhenomenaDomains-Interaction Model for Metaphor DevelopmentSpecifiying Characteristics of Organizing in IPSSApplying Morgan′s Images to the Set of IPSS VariablesConclusionsChapter 7. Exploring Metaphors of Leadership - Turo VirtanenNeed for Quantitative AnalysisWhat Are Metaphors?The Formulation of Leadership Metaphors and Data GenerationOverview of the Distribution of MetaphorsThe Latent Meaning Structures of Leadership CultureResults Compared With Previous ResearchConclusionsChapter 8. Developing Metaphors in Light of the Visual and Digital Turns in Organization Studies: Toward a Methodological Framework - Ron Kerr, Sarah K. Robinson, Carole ElliottThe Visual and Digital Turns in Organization StudiesThe Case: Mondelez InternationalDiscussion: Evolving a New Image Through Our Digital MethodologyConclusions: Contributions of This Paper and Ways Forward for Organization StudiesPART III REFLECTIONS, COMMENTARIES, AND CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUEChapter 9. Imagination and the Political Use of Images - Vitor Hugo Klein, Jr., Christian HuberAssumptions About Images and ImaginationFrom Images of Toward Imagination in OrganizationDiscussion and ConclusionChapter 10. Organization as Affect: Moving on Metaphorically - David Grant, Cliff OswickRevisiting the Metaphor and Organization JourneyA New ChallengeOrganization as AffectConclusionsChapter 11. The "Metaphor" Metaphor: Educating Practitioners for Reflective Judgment - Haridimos TsoukasReflective ThinkingMetaphorPerceptionOrganizations as TextsRefined UnderstandingChapter 12. Of Tropes, Totems, and Taboos: Reflections on Morgan′s Images From a Cross-Cultural Perspective - Peter Case, Hugo Gaggiotti, Jonathan Gosling, Mikael Holmgren CaicedoUnderstanding Tropes, Totems, and TaboosTotems, Images, and Replicas in International EncountersConclusions