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Publication date: 1 April 2006

Duncan McFarlane and Andrew Shaw

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Sensor Review, vol. 26 no. 2
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ISSN: 0260-2288

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Publication date: 1 September 1998

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Property Management, vol. 16 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-7472

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Publication date: 1 June 2004

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Circuit World, vol. 30 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-6120

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Publication date: 1 April 2002

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Kybernetes, vol. 31 no. 3/4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Publication date: 14 November 2017

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Hybrid Ventures
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-078-5

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Publication date: 6 March 2009

Oswald Jones

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International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, vol. 15 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2554

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Publication date: 1 June 2010

Joseph Sarkis

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Benchmarking: An International Journal, vol. 17 no. 3
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ISSN: 1463-5771

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Publication date: 15 April 2020

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Movies, Music and Memory
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-199-5

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Publication date: 6 July 2015

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Multi-Level Governance: The Missing Linkages
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ISBN: 978-1-78441-874-8

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Publication date: 29 March 2022

Dennis Schoeneborn, Consuelo Vásquez and Joep P. Cornelissen

This paper adds to the literature on societal grand challenges by shifting the focus away from business firms and other formal organizations as key actors in addressing such

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This paper adds to the literature on societal grand challenges by shifting the focus away from business firms and other formal organizations as key actors in addressing such challenges toward the inherent organizing capacity that lies in the use of language itself. More specifically, we focus on the organizing capacities of metaphor-based communication, seeking to ascertain which qualities of metaphors enable them to co-orient collective action toward tackling grand challenges. In addressing this question, we develop an analytical framework based on two qualities of metaphorical communication that can provide such co-orientation: a metaphor’s (a) vividness and (b) responsible actionability. We illustrate the usefulness of this framework by assessing selected metaphors used in the public discourse to make sense of and organize collective responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, including the flu metaphor/analogy, the war metaphor, and the combined metaphor of “the hammer and the dance.” Our paper contributes to extant research by providing a means to assess the co-orienting potential of metaphors in bridging varied interpretations. In so doing, our framework can pave the way toward more responsible use of metaphorical communication in tackling society’s grand challenges.

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Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-829-1

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