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082 _aHD31 .M67 1996
_b0197274
100 1 _aMorgan, Gareth,
245 1 0 _aImages of organization /
_cGareth Morgan.
250 _a2nd ed.
264 _aCALIFORNIA
_bSAGE
_c1997
300 _a485 p. :
_bill. ;
505 0 _apt. 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.
520 _aA provocative new book on how we can see, understand, and manage organizations in new ways.
650 0 _aOrganization.
650 0 _aOrganizational behavior.
650 0 _aManagement.
650 2 _aDecision Making, Organizational.
650 2 _aOrganizational Innovation.
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