This
comprises what Kuhn (1962) has described as "normal science."
In organization theory, for example, Thompson's
(1967) book, Organizations in Action, has come to serve as a
model statement and principal point of departure for
theorists interested in contingency theory, which develops
insights generated by the organismic metaphor (Burrell and
Morgan, 1979). The numerous propositions offered in
Thompson's book have generated a great deal of puzzlesolving
research, in which the metaphorical assumptions
underlying Thompson's model are taken-for-granted as a
way of understanding organizations.