Images of Organization / New Edition of the International Best Seller
Images of Organization / New Edition of the International Best Seller
- Sage Publications, 1997
- 486
A Provocative new book on how we can see, understand, and manage organizations in new ways. An Overview, Introduction, Some Images of Organization, Mechanization Takes Command: Organizations as Machines, Nature Intervenes: Organizations as Organism, Learning and Self-Organization: Organizations as Brains, Creating Social Reality: Organizations as Cultures, Interests and 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, Implications of Practice, The Challenge of Metaphor, Reading and Shaping Organizational Life, Postscript, Bibliography, Index.
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A Provocative new book on how we can see, understand, and manage organizations in new ways. An Overview, Introduction, Some Images of Organization, Mechanization Takes Command: Organizations as Machines, Nature Intervenes: Organizations as Organism, Learning and Self-Organization: Organizations as Brains, Creating Social Reality: Organizations as Cultures, Interests and 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, Implications of Practice, The Challenge of Metaphor, Reading and Shaping Organizational Life, Postscript, Bibliography, Index.
761906320