Once upon a time: Crafting allegories to analyze and share the cultural complexity of strategic alignment

Exploring the Use and Adoption of Workplace Automation through Metaphors: A Discourse Dynamics Analysis

“…Although the "business is war" metaphor example relates specifically to an organizational context, from closely examining the literature, I identified many diverse areas that researchers have applied metaphors to in IS research and rich metaphor types. In Hirschheim & Newman (1991), Holeman & Barrett (2017), Iivari (2009), Introna (1996), Kendall & Kendall (1993, Lif, Olsson, & Gulliksen (2001), Oates & Fitzgerald (2007), Smolander, Rossi, & Purao (2008), Truex & Baskerville (1998), Urquhart (1999), Vidgen (1997), Wells et al (2005) Fitzgerald (2006), Martini, Massa, & Testa (2013), Merali (2002), Ramiller (2001), Schultze & Leidner (2002), Swan (2006) IS/IT transformation, change, and alignment Clinical, colonial systems, hatchet in the head, *imbrication, low hanging fruit, *machine, magic dragons, mail, material, mechanistic, organic, *organism, photograph, quick hits, speech, wizards Cass & Lauer (2004), Kaarst-Brown (2017), Jenkin & Chan (2010), Leonardi (2011), Porra, Hirschheim, & Parks (2005, Porra (1999), Sarker & Lee (1999) Organizational theorist Gareth Morgan is one author who has gained considerable attention to date in IS metaphor research (e.g., Jenkin & Chan, 2010;Middleton & Cukier, 2006;Oates & Fitzgerald, 2007;Walsham, 1991Walsham, , 1993. His original work proposes that management and organization theories build on implicit metaphors (images of organization) that allow one to understand, view, and manage organizations in distinguishing yet partial ways.…”

Narrative of governance crisis in Nigeria: Allegory of resource curse and “Emergence” in Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwò

“…For Lewis (1958), "allegory, in some sense, belongs not to medieval man but to man, or even to mind, in general" (p. 44). Though much more rampant in political appreciations, allegory has also been adopted to address many functional purposes like religion Dimitriu, 2014;Khan, 2017;Knapp, 2014;Phair, 2010;Scalia, 2016;Shohat, 2006) to satire, raise rhetoric, promote, and suppress ideological systems (Hile, 2017;Milford & Rowland, 2012;Virtue, 2013;Xu, 2018); for "legal ownership and use" as contained in Chaucer's Melibee (Taylor, 2009); Crime fictions and other moral suasions (Rolls et al, 2016); culture, gender, race, and ethnicity (Achinger, 2013;Gilfedder, 2016;Kaarst-Brown, 2017;R. C. Smith, 1949); and not in the least for pure appreciation of literary values, language, and cognitive figuration (Harris & Tolmie, 2011;Monelle, 1997;Rolls et al, 2016).…”

Narrative of Governance Crisis in Nigeria: Allegories of Resource Curse and ‘Emergence’ from Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and Agogo-Èèwọ

“…(quoted in Moosavinia & Baji, 2018, p. 2) Allegorical work of art is somewhat rampant, even from the medieval times (Asay, 2013; Knapp, 2015) through to postmodern and contemporary eras (Dovey, 1988;Rosenbrück, 2016;Cichosz, 2017). Though much more rampant in political appreciations, allegory has also been adopted to address many functional purposes like religion (Shohat, 2006: Phair, 2010: Brozgal, 2013Dimitriu, 2014;Knapp, 2014)' for rhetoric, promotion and suppression of ideological system (Milford & Rowland, 2010, Virtue, 2013; for "legal ownership and use' as contained in Chaucer's Melibee (Taylor, 2009); Crime fictions and other moral suasions (Rolls, Vuaille-Barcan & West-Sooby, 2016); culture, gender, race and ethnicity (Smith, 1949;Achinger, 2013;Kaarst-Brown, 2017); and not in the least for pure appreciation of literary values, language and cognitive figuration (Monelle, 1997;Harris & Tolmie, 2011;Rolls et al, 2016).…”