The Oxford Handbook of Metaphor in Organization Studies

Anders Örtenblad is Professor of Working Life Science at the University of Agder, Norway. While the majority of his career has been based in the Nordic countries, he has also worked elsewhere including three years in China. He has edited numerous books and journals, including The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization (OUP, 2019), and has previously edited various works on metaphor in organization studies with Linda L. Putnam and Kiran Trehan.

• Frank J. Barrett: Foreword1: Anders Örtenblad: Toward an Increasingly Flourishing Use of Metaphor/s in Organization StudiesI - Metaphors: Theoretical Considerations2: Joep Cornelissen: Defining the Role of Metaphor in Organization Studies3: Cliff Oswick and David Grant: Defining, Refining, and Redefining Metaphor: A Reflective and Generative Discussion with Gareth Morgan4: Cornelia Müller: Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking Metaphors: The Spectrum of Metaphor and the Multimodality of Discourse5: Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen: The Meaning of a WordII - Metaphors in Management and Organization6: Kiri Dell, Chellie Spiller, and Nimbus Staniland: Do Indigenous Metaphors Have Universal Applicability? Learnings from M=aori in New Zealand7: Regine Bendl and Angelika Schmidt: Metaphors for Diversity and Discrimination in and by Organizations8: Rebecka Arman and Ewa Wikström: Images of the Life Metaphor in Organizational Studies9: Bertrand Audrin and Eric Davoine: Metaphors of Digital Transformation10: Barbara Czarniawska: "Robots at Work": A Metaphor or a Label?11: Terri Byers and Charles Owusu: Metaphors for Competition within and between Organizations: The Value and Use of Sports Metaphors12: Paula Rossi: On Music- and Dance-Related Metaphors for Organization and Management13: Stephen A. Linstead: Fifty Shades of Organization: Darkness and Light as Metaphors for Processes14: Anders Örtenblad and Sumeyra Alpaslan-Danisman: On Color Metaphors in Organization StudiesIII - The Application of Metaphors in Research15: Mats Alvesson, Yiannis Gabriel, and Jörgen Sandberg: Using Metaphors Critically and Reflexively in Empirical Organizational Research16: Hermann Mitterhofer and Silvia Jordan: Using Metaphors in Research: Visual Metaphors in Organizations17: Alan Cienki: Metaphor in Gesture in an Organizational Context18: Elena Bruni and Claudio Biscaro: Ensuring Validity and Reliability in Empirical Studies on Metaphor in Organizations19: Lorin Basden Arnold: Just Like a Freefall: The Freedoms and Pitfalls of Critical Metaphor AnalysisIV - The Use and Abuse of Metaphors in Settings other than Research20: Claudio Biscaro and Elena Bruni: Metaphors in the Creative Journey: Using Metaphors in Practice21: Cynthia Wagner Weick: Using Metaphors in the Management Classroom: Conceptualizing Complexity, Exploring Mindsets, and Driving Change22: Sonja Sackmann: Metaphors in Action: The Seductive Quality of Metaphors and Ways to Counterbalance ItV - Perspective on Metaphor23: Hugo Gaggiotti, Heather Marie Austin, Peter Case, Jonathan Gosling, and Mikael Holmgren Caicedo: Translating Organizing and Organizational Metaphors: From the Universal to the Particular24: Jonathan Pinto and Hans Cristian Garmann Johnsen: Metaphors and Valence - Do They Have It? Do They Need It?25: L. David Ritchie: Jobs and the Mac: Conceptual Metaphors as Cognitive and Rhetorical Resource26: Michael Reed: Metaphors and Organization Studies: A Critical Realist View27: Hugo Letiche and Ivo De Loo: Research: Invitation to MetaphorVI - Epilogue28: Anders Örtenblad: Organizational Metaphors of the Future: Some Suggested Types of Further Research29: Haridimos Tsoukas: Afterword: Analogy All the Way Down: Analogical Thinking Is at the Core of Understanding Organizations Interpretively

The birth of Conceptual Metaphor Theory in 1980 has given rise to decades of careful cross-cultural analysis of how our abstract conceptualization and reasoning are profoundly shaped by deep systematic metaphors. This present volume incisively investigates the underlying metaphors that frame our understanding of the structures, practices, and values of our organizations, management operations, and research practices. The chapters develop both an analytic posture and also a critical perspective on the uses of those metaphors as they affect people's lives and wellbeing.