Images of organization /
Saved in:
| Author / Creator: | Morgan, Gareth |
|---|---|
| Imprint: | Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, 1986. |
| Description: | 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/865805 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Mechanization Takes Command
- Organizations As Machines
- Machines, Mechanical Thinking, and the Rise of Bureaucratic Organization
- Strengths and Limitations of the Machine Metaphor
- Nature Intervenes
- Organizations As Organisms
- Discovering Organizational Needs
- Recognizing the Importance of Environment, Organizations as Open Systems
- Contingency Theory
- The Variety of the Species
- Organizational Health and Development
- Natural Selection
- Organizational Ecology
- Strengths and Limitations of the Organismic Metaphor
- Toward Self-Organization
- Organizations As Brains
- Images of the Brain
- Organizations as Information-Processing Brains
- Brains and Organizations as Holographic Systems
- Strengths and Limitations of the Brain Metaphor
- Creating Social Reality
- Organizations As Cultures
- Culture and Organization
- Creating Organizational Reality
- Strengths and Limitations of the Culture Metaphor
- Interests, Conflict, and Power
- Organizations As Political Systems
- Organizations as Systems of Government
- Organizations as Systems of Political Activity
- Manageing Pluralist Organizatons
- Strengths and Limitations of the Political Metaphor
- Exploring Plato's Cave
- Organizations As Psychic Prisons
- The Trap of Favored Ways of Thinking
- Organizations and the Unconscious
- Strengths and Limitations of the Psychic Prison Metaphor
- Unfolding Logics Of Change
- Organization As Flux and Transformation
- Implicate and Explicate Aspects of Organization
- Autopoiesis
- The Logic of Self-Producing Systems
- Organizations as Self-Producing Systems
- Loops not Lines
- The Logic of Mutual Causality
- Contradiction and Crisis
- The Logic of Dialectical Change
- Strengths and Limitations of the Flux Metaphor
- The Ugly Face
- Organizations As Instruments of Domination
- Organization as Domination
- How Organizations Use and Exploit their Employees
- Multinationals and the World Economy
- Strengths and Limitations of the Domination Metaphor
- Developing the Art of Organizational Analysis
- Using Metaphor to Read and Understand Organization
- Using Metaphor to Manage and Design Organization
- Reading as Theory in Practice
- Imaginization
- A Direction For the Future
- On Elephants and Organizations
- Imaginization
- Organization as a way of Thinking