Understanding organizations through embodied metaphors

Organization Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-78

  Heracleous, Loizos ^a   Jacobs, Claus D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Embodied metaphors; Embodied realism; Organizational levels

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849049068     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607086637     Document Type: Article

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