Vision or psychic prison
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2012
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Psychic prison-Plato’s cave metaphor introduced a compelling concept that how organizations can get trapped by their favored ways
of thinking and thus fail to adapt to the environmental changes and demands. This metaphor provides organizations with a subjective
clue that how organizations can be trapped in their favored ways of thinking and mental models which ultimately lead them to a state
of psychic prison. However, little is known about the antecedent(s) which might lead organizations to this psychic prison mentality.
Therefore, this paper aims to identify the factor(s) which objectively contribute toward this psychic prison mentality. This paper holds
the view that despite its initial success and utility, “organization’s vision” after a certain period of time creates an internal environment
which limits organization to see outside of the vision’s boundaries and thus leads organization toward a state where organization becomes
psychic prison of its vision.
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Favored Ways of Thinking, Mental Models, Organization Memory, Failure of Unconscious, Vision Failure
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Business Intelligence Journal 5(2), 207-213