Images of organization / Gareth Morgan.
Images of organization / Gareth Morgan.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1997.
Call Numbers
T0361754
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
485 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 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...
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Publisher
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1997.
Edition
2nd ed.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
c1997.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
We are living in the midst of a revolution in organization and management. The mechanistic principles that have dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are being replaced by those of an electronic universe. As a result managers have to see and understand organizations in new ways.
In this book Gareth Morgan shows how this can be done. In a sequence of path-breaking chapters he demonstrates how we can mobilize the insights of different metaphors to manage and design organizations in new ways, develop novel understandings of the relationships between organization and environment, create learning organizations with the intellig...
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Images of organization / Gareth Morgan.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-462) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from 658.4/443.
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Date Copyright
c1997.
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T0361754
Record Identifier
74VvD5px3Xa3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvD5px3Xa3
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ISBN
0761906312
9780761906322 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0761906320 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780761906315 (acid-free paper)
0761906312 (acid-free paper)
9780761906346 (pb, new ed. of int. bestseller)
0761906347 (pb, new ed. of int. bestseller)
9780761906322 (pbk.)
0761906320 (pbk.)
9780761906315
DDC
658.4
MMS ID
991005109859702626
