Organizations as places: a metaphor for change
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- Published by Emerald in Journal of Organizational Change Management
- Vol. 9 (6), 26-40
- https://doi.org/10.1108/09534819610150503
Abstract
Organizational theorists have used metaphors such as organism, machine and language to understand organizations. Develops a new metaphor of place, based on writing about natural places, to imagine how an organization could radically recreate itself so that a healthy ecology is possible.Keywords
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