Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Advances in Developing Human Resources
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Kraemer, T. J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Generating New Metaphors: Downsizing as Cancer

Theresa J. Kraemer

The problem and the solution. HRD must be careful not to confine itself to known metaphors and instead remain open to transferring metaphors into HRD from other disciplines and to generating new ones. But how are new metaphors generated? This chapter reports on one approach: noticing similarities between unconnected objects. In this particular case, new insights result from the metaphor of downsizing as cancer.

Advances in Developing Human Resources, Vol. 3, No. 3, 355-365 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/15234220122238373
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Advances in Developing Human ResourcesHome page
D. C. Short
Strategies for Applying Metaphor in HRD Research, Practice, and Education
Advances in Developing Human Resources, August 1, 2001; 3(3): 379 - 396.
[Abstract] [PDF]