Reimagining organisational conflicts through the metaphor of music

Abstract

In this theoretical article, the vital role of conflicts in knowledge creation is foregrounded, and the concept of conflict is reimagined using a metaphor of music. Theoretically, knowledge creation is understood as a process in which people, through institutionalisation, synthesise their conflicting institutional arrangements affecting their decisions, actions, and behaviour. Utilizing metaphor as a methodological choice, and combining music and organisational conflicts in an analytical framework offer ways to cross and move the boundaries between arts and science of organisational studies. As a result, conflicts are reimagined and reconceptualised as relational, felt meaning and lived experiences of differences in institutional arrangements. This reimagined concept shifts the focus of organisational conflicts from 'thingification' to human aspects underlying the sense-making of conflict experiences: the evolving story, identity, emotions and power relations.

Application of Metaphors for Integrating New Meanings of Cultural Art Features into Modern Products: Insights from Thailand

“…The vase-shaped lamp base portrays the auspicious meaning by combining Benjarong's pattern and Benjatath's colors. (Rossi, 2020), and visual arts (Fox, 2018). The ability of metaphor to deliver next to each other things that are utterly dissimilar from each other and to eventually open a new perspective by enabling people to understand and experience one type of example in the context of some other explains why that metaphor is deemed valuable and has become increasingly popular as a topic of interest in a broad range of fields (Lakoff & Johnson, 2013).…”