This has important consequences, for it encourages
a spirit of critical inquiry and cautions against excessive
commitment to favored points of view. Traditional
approaches to organizational analysis are often based upon a
few well-tried concepts and methods, which are regarded
as axiomatic insofar as an understanding of organization is
concerned. In such situations the metaphorical nature of the
image which generated such concepts is lost from view,
and the process of organizational analysis becomes overconcretized
as theorists and researchers treat the concepts
as a description of reality