Metaphor and Organizations Book

	Acknowledgements
	Notes on Contributors
	List of Tables
	List of Figures
	Introduction: Getting the Measure of Metaphors	1
1	Some Consequences of Taking Gareth Morgan Seriously	21
2	Metaphor in the Development of Organization Theory	37
3	The Triune-Brain Metaphor: The Evolution of the Living Organization	53
4	Metaphors in Organizational Research: Of Embedded Embryos, Paradigms and Powerful People	74
5	Metaphors in Popular Management Discourse: The Case of Corporate Restructuring	95
6	Metaphor in Organization Theory: Following in the Footsteps of the Poet?	110
7	Metaphors and Metaphorization in Organizational Analysis: Thinking Beyond the Thinkable	127
8	Metaphors, Metaphoric Fields and Organizational Change	147
9	Telling Tales: Management Consultancy as the Art of Story Telling	166
10	In the Image of Man: Organizational Action, Competence and Learning	185
11	Can You Resist a Dream? Evangelical Metaphors and the Appropriation of Emotion	200
12	The Organization of Metaphors and the Metaphors of Organization: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here?	213
13	An Afterword: Is There Anything More to be Said About Metaphor?	227
	Index	241