Images of organization
A provocative book on how we can see, understand, and manage organizations in new ways.
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Thousand Oaks, Calif.
SAGE
c1997
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of 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.