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Images of organization / Gareth Morgan.

By: Morgan, GarethMaterial type: TextTextCALIFORNIA SAGE 1997Edition: 2nd edDescription: 485 p. : illISBN: 0761906312 (acidfree paper); 9780761906315 (acidfree paper); 0761906320 (pbk. : acidfree paper); 9780761906322 (pbk. : acidfree paper); 0761906339 (hbk.); 9780761906339 (hbk.); 0761906347 (pbk.); 9780761906346 (pbk.)Subject(s): Organization | Organizational behavior | Management | Decision Making, Organizational | Organizational InnovationDDC classification: HD31 .M67 1996
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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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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