The research work of these different theorists contributes
to a view of scientific inquiry as a creative process in which
scientists view the world metaphorically, through the language
and concepts which filter and structure their perceptions
of their subject of study and through the specific
metaphors which they implicitly or explicitly choose to develop
their framework for analysis. Attention in this article is
focused upon the latter use of metaphor, with a view to
showing how schools of thought in organization theory are
based upon the insights associated with different
metaphors for the study of organizations, and how the logic
of metaphor has important implications for the process of
theory construction.