Images of Organization is a bestseller book by
Gareth Morgan, professor of organizational behavior and industrial relations at the
Schulich School of Business
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Toronto
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, which attempts to unveil organization via a number of metaphors. It was first published in 1986.
The book particularly describes the organization as (1) machines, (2) organisms, (3) brains, (4) cultures, (5) political systems, (6) psychic prisons, (7) flux and transformation, and (8) instruments of domination.
References
A review of Images of Organizationby Matthew J. Lambert III, ''Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education'' Volume 6 (2009), Number 2 • pp. 156–158.
External links
Images of Organization: Table of Contents
Business books
2007 non-fiction books
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