Images of organization

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

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Main Author: Morgan, Gareth 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. SAGE c1997
Edition:2nd ed.
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260 |a Thousand Oaks, Calif.  |b SAGE  |c c1997 
300 |a 485 p.  |b ill.  |c 24 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 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. 
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