Metaphor-Driven Contextualization: Reordering Sustainability Information for Collective Intelligence

Carol Aebi
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Carol Aebi: Business Science Institute

Chapter Chapter 3 in Unifying Sustainability Information for Societal Automation, 2025, pp 39-73 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter utilizes metaphorical reasoning and draws upon Gareth Morgan’s “Images of Organization” to provide a theoretical basis for understanding complex social value and sustainability dynamics. The selected metaphor of the “flux and transformation” lens/prism offers insights into the constant interplay between social stability and dynamic change in social development. Thought trials through metaphor explore interconnected concepts, including the relationships between systems and their environments, chaos and complexity theory, cybernetics, and the tensions between opposites. Concepts such as Stigmergy, Systems Thinking and Systems Dynamics offer contextualization. Chapter 3 bridges the social value and social impact literature examined in Chap. 2 and the model-building process outlined in Chap. 4 by providing a new perspective frame for a new theory’s emergence.

Keywords: Metaphorical reasoning; Social sustainability; Flux and transformation; System dynamics; Systems thinking; Societal systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-83120-1_3

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