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Root Metaphor in Industrial Relations: A Reply to Tom Keenoy
Author(s) -
Dunn Stephen
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.1991.tb00244.x
Subject(s) - metaphor , root (linguistics) , argument (complex analysis) , happening , root cause , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , history , linguistics , economics , art history , operations management , biology , performance art , biochemistry
Where Keenoy takes liberties, I try to correct him. I did not say that the ‘old’ industrial relations has been superceded by the ‘new’. Nor did I suggest a Kuhnian paradigm shift. Nor did my argument hinge upon these things happening. Quite the opposite, in fact. The root metaphors are a problem precisely because little is scientifically decided between ‘old’ and ‘new’. Once such wrinkles have been ironed out, Keenoy and I seem to agree on a great deal. His conclusion, however, is more comforting than mine.