Understanding Organizations: The Poetic Mode

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As a system of understanding reality, the organizational culture and symbolism perspective is similar to Romanticism. Both movements arose out of the recognition of the inadequacies of rationalism, and both attempt to chart areas of the human experience through the imagination in terms of metaphors, symbols, and myths. A comparison of the two, therefore, serves to explain the rise of the cultural and symbolic perspective in organizational studies and its theoretical basis. Further, the comparison at once suggests the potential of the symbolist perspective as well as its problems, especially relativism and the love of distance, while indicating how that perspective may evolve as a total system.

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