Editorial

Authors

• Ali Asghar Pourezzat ¹
• S. Mohammad Hossein Hashemian ²

¹ Assistant Professor at the Department of Governmental Management, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² PhD Student in Policy Making, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

From an Hermeneutical methodology perspective, metaphor, having exclusive attributes, is considered an efficient instrument for understanding complex phenomena in different sciences. In the organization theory and management world also some scholars have tried to understand and explain organization by using different metaphors. This article by going beyond common organizational issues, intended to discuss about a root metaphor, which asks about the being and the truth of organization from an ontological perspective. Contrary to many of other organizational metaphors, the way metaphor stemmed from God’s saying and in the light of holy Quran is considered as a essential metaphor in the Islamic philosophy Specially Sadraian ontology and epistemology and mysticism teachings and has a high validity in the ontological explanations of these social phenomena.

Keywords

• metaphorical understanding
• root metaphor
• ontology
• way
• substantial movement
• organizational truth
• essential metaphor

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