Images of organization /
by Gareth Morgan.
- Updated ed.
- Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2006.
- xv, 504 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-473) and index.
Mechanization takes command : organizations as machines -- Nature intervenes : organizations as organisms -- Learning and self-organization : organizations as brains -- Creating social realty : 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 -- The challenge of metaphor -- Reading and shaping organizational life -- Postscript.