This article uses conceptual metaphor theory to develop the concept of ‘skeumorphs’ (reuse of old concepts for new phenomena) in order to analyse the Swedish The Pirate Bay court case. In line with conceptual metaphor theory, which states that abstract thinking is largely metaphorical, the article argues that this is true also for digital phenomena that, thus, are largely understood through met...

since the time of western modernity, knowledge is compartmentalized into differentiated fields. this has however not mitigated the influence of natural science model of theorizing on social sciences. as a result, the discipline of organization theory has grown without the influence of abstract, ephemeral and metaphysical fields such as religion, history, mystic philosophy, arts and literature. ...

This paper offers a preliminary study of how knowledge may be represented differently in different languages. In particular, we account for the contrast between English and Chinese when identical target domain knowledge is represented with two different, yet related, source domains in each language. We incorporate corpora analysis in English and Chinese with SUMO to delimit the source domains i...

Strategic alignment is sometimes used to provide the conceptual underpinnings of causal analyses of business performance, yet our understanding of the notion suffers, in large measure, from imprecise and unusable definitions that rely on vague geometric metaphors. This paper builds on and improves a conceptual framework for strategic alignment (Wang and Ghose, 2006). It applies the framework to...