Product Description: The use of metaphors to explain organizational development is an increasingly popular method within this area. Those metaphors contained in this text seek to address the limitations of, and the problems associated with, organizational theory, as well as focusing on the strengths and benefits...read more

Product Description: Metaphors are, according to Gareth Morgan `a way of thinking and a way of seeing'. The use of metaphor underpins the expectations, behaviour and strategies governing all aspects of organizational life. Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this collection of critical essays analyzes the role of metaphor in the theory of organizations...read more

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