| Title : | Images of organization | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Gareth Morgan | | Edition statement: | Updated ed. | | Publisher: | Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications | | Publication Date: | 2006 | | Pagination: | xv, 504 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | Paperback | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-1-4129-3979-9 | | Class number: | 658.4 | | Abstract: | Gareth Morgan provides a rich and comprehensive resource for exploring the complexity of modern organizations internationally: he translates leading-edge theory into leading-edge practice. New to the Updated Edition: the author has revised all references and updated tables; his new preface situates this classic theory in today's business environment; and instructor's resources to aid classroom teaching are now available on CD-ROM. Images of Organization challenges and reshapes how we think about organization and management in the most fundamental way. The new Updated Edition makes this monumental work available to a new generation of students and business leaders worldwide. | | Contents note: | Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 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. Bibliographic Notes. Bibliography. Index. About The Author. |
Images of organization [printed text] / Gareth Morgan . - Updated ed. . - Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2006 . - xv, 504 p. : ill. ; Paperback. ISBN : 978-1-4129-3979-9 | Class number: | 658.4 | | Abstract: | Gareth Morgan provides a rich and comprehensive resource for exploring the complexity of modern organizations internationally: he translates leading-edge theory into leading-edge practice. New to the Updated Edition: the author has revised all references and updated tables; his new preface situates this classic theory in today's business environment; and instructor's resources to aid classroom teaching are now available on CD-ROM. Images of Organization challenges and reshapes how we think about organization and management in the most fundamental way. The new Updated Edition makes this monumental work available to a new generation of students and business leaders worldwide. | | Contents note: | Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 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. Bibliographic Notes. Bibliography. Index. About The Author. |
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