“A Rumpelstiltskin Organization: Metaphors on Metaphors” [Recommended Innovation Articles (and Commentary) #26]
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This article is titled “A Rumpelstiltskin Organization: Metaphors on Metaphors in Field Research” by Kenwyn Smith and Valerie Simmons, and it makes me giggle a bit when Microsoft, Medium and other spellcheck systems tell me that ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ is not a word and no replacements exist for it, yet it continues to give it the red dotted underline treatment. This article comes out of the Administrative Science Quarterly Volume 28, 1983, pp. 377–392. So, this might be tricky for some readers to get as there will be an academic journal paywall. For those military readers and…
