Images of organization / Gareth Morgan.
Publication details: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : c1998.Edition: Executive edition, 1st editionDescription: xiii, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 1576750388 (BerrettKoehler : trade : alk. paper)
- 0761917527 (Sage: academic : alk.paper)
- 658.4 23 MOR
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE: AN OVERVIEW
The Promise of Images of Organization
PART TWO: SOME IMAGES OF ORGANIZATION
Mechanization Takes Command
Organizations as Machines
Nature Intervenes
Organizations as Organisms
Learning and Self-Organization
Organizations as Brains
Creating Social Reality
Organizations as Cultures
Interests, Conflict and Power
Organizations as Political Systems
Exploring Plato's Cave
Organizations as Psychic Prisons
Unfolding Logics of Change
Organization as Flux and Transformation
The Ugly Face
Organizations as Instruments of Domination
PART THREE: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE
Reading and Shaping Organizational Life
Using Metaphor To Manage in a Turbulent World
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-333) and index P. 334-349
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