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.

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.

• Frank J. Barrett: Foreword 1: Anders Örtenblad: Toward an Increasingly Flourishing Use of Metaphor/s in Organization Studies I - Metaphors: Theoretical Considerations 2: Joep Cornelissen: Defining the Role of Metaphor in Organization Studies 3: Cliff Oswick and David Grant: Defining, Refining, and Redefining Metaphor: A Reflective and Generative Discussion with Gareth Morgan 4: Cornelia Müller: Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking Metaphors: The Spectrum of Metaphor and the Multimodality of Discourse 5: Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen: The Meaning of a Word II - Metaphors in Management and Organization 6: Kiri Dell, Chellie Spiller, and Nimbus Staniland: Do Indigenous Metaphors Have Universal Applicability? Learnings from M=aori in New Zealand 7: Regine Bendl and Angelika Schmidt: Metaphors for Diversity and Discrimination in and by Organizations 8: Rebecka Arman and Ewa Wikström: Images of the Life Metaphor in Organizational Studies 9: Bertrand Audrin and Eric Davoine: Metaphors of Digital Transformation 10: 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 Metaphors 12: Paula Rossi: On Music- and Dance-Related Metaphors for Organization and Management 13: Stephen A. Linstead: Fifty Shades of Organization: Darkness and Light as Metaphors for Processes 14: Anders Örtenblad and Sumeyra Alpaslan-Danisman: On Color Metaphors in Organization Studies III - The Application of Metaphors in Research 15: Mats Alvesson, Yiannis Gabriel, and Jörgen Sandberg: Using Metaphors Critically and Reflexively in Empirical Organizational Research 16: Hermann Mitterhofer and Silvia Jordan: Using Metaphors in Research: Visual Metaphors in Organizations 17: Alan Cienki: Metaphor in Gesture in an Organizational Context 18: Elena Bruni and Claudio Biscaro: Ensuring Validity and Reliability in Empirical Studies on Metaphor in Organizations 19: Lorin Basden Arnold: Just Like a Freefall: The Freedoms and Pitfalls of Critical Metaphor Analysis IV - The Use and Abuse of Metaphors in Settings other than Research 20: Claudio Biscaro and Elena Bruni: Metaphors in the Creative Journey: Using Metaphors in Practice 21: Cynthia Wagner Weick: Using Metaphors in the Management Classroom: Conceptualizing Complexity, Exploring Mindsets, and Driving Change 22: Sonja Sackmann: Metaphors in Action: The Seductive Quality of Metaphors and Ways to Counterbalance It V - Perspective on Metaphor 23: Hugo Gaggiotti, Heather Marie Austin, Peter Case, Jonathan Gosling, and Mikael Holmgren Caicedo: Translating Organizing and Organizational Metaphors: From the Universal to the Particular 24: 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 Resource 26: Michael Reed: Metaphors and Organization Studies: A Critical Realist View 27: Hugo Letiche and Ivo De Loo: Research: Invitation to Metaphor VI - Epilogue 28: Anders Örtenblad: Organizational Metaphors of the Future: Some Suggested Types of Further Research 29: Haridimos Tsoukas: Afterword: Analogy All the Way Down: Analogical Thinking Is at the Core of Understanding Organizations Interpretively