"Applying Morgan’s Metaphors explores how the eight metaphors that Morgan presents in Images of Organization are being used in a variety of contexts, particularly for research, practice, and organizational intervention. The text discusses timely topics such as leadership, entrepreneurship, collaboration, training, and development. In addition, the text uses the metaphor approach to break new ground and propose new metaphors for organizat ..."
"There can be little doubt that Images of Organization (hereafter Images) is one of
the most important and iconic ... Several generations of organization studies
academics, students, and practitioners owe a great debt to Gareth Morgan for the
intellectual work ... to the study of organization, we can testify personally to the
impact that the emergence of Images had intellectually, pedagogically, and ...
theory tour de force, and yet ..."
"So the visual bias gets played out in many ways, and as John Shotter (1990)
pointed out in an early commentary, my emphasis on “reading” organizational life
inevitably raises the question of “authoring.” This latter metaphor takes us much
more into the detailed processes through which we actively “write” and produce
organizational life—a topic that easily justifies a book on its own account. It is
also explored in work related to t ..."
"In honor of Morgan’s classic text, this edited volume, Exploring Morgan’s Metaphors: Theory, Research, and Practice in Organizational Studies, illustrates how Morgan’s eight metaphors inform research, practice, and organizational ..."
"Next, Helen D. Armstrong presents—against the backdrop of her critical and
famous article from the very beginning of the century (Armstrong 2000)—a
humanistic perspective, in Chapter 27, “The Learning Organization as a Practice
of ..."
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"Tony Huzzard is a Professor in Organization Theory in the Department of
Business Administration at Lund University. He has researched and published
widely on organizational learning, change and development, industrial ...
scientific journals and conferences. Dr. Kyriakopoulos is currently a Teaching
and Research Associate at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (
National Technical University of Athens). Svante Lifvergr ..."
"Capability the final 'c' is capability, a system-based advantage that is difficult to
replicate by competitors. the ... garner different organizational behaviour. being a
vast country with numerous regional cultural traditions that have not been too
well ... at external knowledge transfer, a combination of the latter three c's is likely
to emerge over the next decades as norms of ... where external countenance
overrides internal co ..."
"A modern systems theory perspective', Journal of Organisation Transformation
and Social Change, 6 (1), 5–28. Díez, M., C. Soler, M. Sureda and B. Visauta (
2005), 'Exploring the “learning organization model” in multinational companies:
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"Innovations in management are becoming more numerous and diverse, and are appearing in organizations providing many different kinds of products and services. The purpose of this book is to examine whether some widely-promoted examples of these management innovations – ranging from techniques such as Kaizen to styles of leadership and the management of learning – can usefully be applied to organizations which provide healthcare, and appl ..."
"Is corporate social responsibility (CSR) a universal idea? Is the same exact definition of CSR relevant for any organization, regardless of context? Or would such a definition need to be adapted to fit different types of organizations, in different cultures, industries and sectors? This book discusses how CSR should preferably be practiced. The expert authors share their knowledge on whether a broad definition of CSR can be practiced as ..."
"This innovative handbook widens our understanding of knowledge management, a field that has risen to prominence in recent decades. It collects contemporary insights from more than 30 contributors into the rich tapestry of knowledge management practices across a broad landscape of cultures and socio-political contexts. The contributors offer authoritative analyses to inform practical applications of knowledge management, along with provo ..."
"Innovations in management are becoming more numerous and diverse, and are appearing in organizations providing many different kinds of products and services. The purpose of this book is to examine whether some widely-promoted examples of these management innovations – ranging from techniques such as Kaizen to styles of leadership and the management of learning – can usefully be applied to organizations which provide healthcare, and appl ..."
"This timely Handbook establishes the 'contextualization' of the learning organization idea as a research field.In contrast to much of the previous literature, which has approached the learning organization as a panacea that every organization could and should adopt, this major new Handbook puts the learning organization into context. It examines the relevance of the learning organization idea to organizations in various specific context ..."
"... Pauline Fatien Diochon This chapter argues for leaderless organizations as offering a sound alternative to the dominant hubristic leadership model. But more than preaching for the desirability of leaderless organizations, this chapter ..."
Professionalizing Leadership Debating Education, Certification and Practice by AndersÖrtenblad 425 Pages, Published 2018 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-3-319-71785-2, ISBN: 3-319-71785-5
"Oxford: Oxford University Press. Eckhoff, Torstein. 1967. Vitenskap, Profesjoner
og Klienter. ... In Profesjonsstudier, edited by Anders Molander, and Lars Inge
Terum, 29–53. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. Freidson, Eliot. 1970. Professional ..."
"In addition, among political commentators there seems to be no doubt that “the
best are leaving”, as Ksenia Semenova (2015) puts it in the title of her paper. If
we are to believe migration theory and different political commentators, Russia is
..."
"This book presents a lively debate surrounding the professionalization of leadership. With contributions from both sides of the argument, it considers the historical overview of leadership and management as a profession, questions what constitutes a profession, and critically addresses the practicality of professionalizing leadership. With a range of perspectives including political philosophy, behavioral professionalism and management ..."
"This book focuses on how the Northern futures are transformed through regional cooperation in the Barents eduscape: a study of the social, cultural and political aspects of higher education and the exchanges of learning and people in the Euro-Arctic Barents region, especially between Norway and Russia.Cultural exchange through higher education involving actors such as students and institutions is an integral part both of the Bologna pro ..."