Metaphors and organization studies: A critical realist view

Reed, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8267-572X 2024. Metaphors and organization studies: A critical realist view. Örtenblad, Anders, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Metaphors in Organization Studies, Oxford university Press, pp. 420-433. (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192895707.013.26)

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the ontological status of metaphor and its epistemological implications for the study of organizations from a critical realist standpoint. It provides a brief overview of critical realism as it has emerged in organization studies over the last three decades. This leads to an exploration of how such an approach has been used to undertake the study of ‘complex metaphors’ as they have shaped political discourse in organizational life. Finally, the chapter provides an analysis of the emergence of an ‘authoritarian populist’ strain of neoliberalism and its impact on contemporary organizational governance and management. It suggests that this mutant strain has the potential to evolve into a toxic ideological cocktail mixing nativism, libertarianism and elitism in a highly dynamic but inherently unstable discursive formation.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Oxford university Press
ISBN:	9780192895707
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2024 09:50
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/166582

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