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Images of organization / Gareth Morgan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1997.Edition: New Edition of the International Best-SellerDescription: 485 Pages. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0761906347 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Images of organization.LOC classification:
  • HD31 .M628 1997
Contents:
pt. I. An overview -- 1. Introduction -- pt. II. Some images of organization -- 2. Mechanization takes command : organizations as machines -- 3. Nature intervenes : organizations as organisms -- 4. Learning and self-organization : organizations as brains -- 5. Creating social reality : organizations as cultures -- 6. Interests, conflict, and power : organizations as political systems -- 7. Exploring Plato's cave : organizations as psychic prisons -- 8. Unfolding logics of change : organization as flux and transformation -- 9. The ugly face : organizations as instruments of domination -- pt. III. Implications for practice -- 10. The challenge of metaphor -- 11. Reading and shaping organizational life -- 12. Postscript.
Summary: A provocative new book on how we can see, understand, and manage organizations in new ways.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-462) and index.

pt. I. An overview -- 1. Introduction -- pt. II. Some images of organization -- 2. Mechanization takes command : organizations as machines -- 3. Nature intervenes : organizations as organisms -- 4. Learning and self-organization : organizations as brains -- 5. Creating social reality : organizations as cultures -- 6. Interests, conflict, and power : organizations as political systems -- 7. Exploring Plato's cave : organizations as psychic prisons -- 8. Unfolding logics of change : organization as flux and transformation -- 9. The ugly face : organizations as instruments of domination -- pt. III. Implications for practice -- 10. The challenge of metaphor -- 11. Reading and shaping organizational life -- 12. Postscript.

A provocative new book on how we can see, understand, and manage organizations in new ways.

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