Thanks Luke - always like your musings - funnily enough on this occasion I was just reading some academic stuff myself on metaphor and this paper (below) sets out different forms of analogical reasoning including irony and paradox as ways to understand organisations which was leading me down similar paths of thought...
(Oswick, Cliff, Tom Keenoy, and David Grant. “Metaphor and Analogical Reasoning in Organization Theory: Beyond Orthodoxy.” Academy of Management Review 27, no. 2 (2002): 294–303. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2002.6588045.)
Thanks Luke - always like your musings - funnily enough on this occasion I was just reading some academic stuff myself on metaphor and this paper (below) sets out different forms of analogical reasoning including irony and paradox as ways to understand organisations which was leading me down similar paths of thought...
(Oswick, Cliff, Tom Keenoy, and David Grant. “Metaphor and Analogical Reasoning in Organization Theory: Beyond Orthodoxy.” Academy of Management Review 27, no. 2 (2002): 294–303. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMR.2002.6588045.)
Have you had a chat with Dr Richard Claydon? If not you should!
You're not the first to mention. But yes it sounds like I do. There is nothing new under the sun...!