Images of Organization
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Images of Organization is a bestseller book by Gareth Morgan, professor of organizational behavior and industrial relations at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, which attempts to unveil organization via a number of metaphors. It was first published in 1986.
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Author | Gareth Morgan |
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Language | English |
Subject | Management, Organizational studies |
Genre | Nonfiction |
Publisher | Sage Publications |
Publication date | originally published in 1986 |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 520 |
ISBN | 978-1-4129-3979-9 |
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The book particularly describes the organization metaphorically as (1) machines, (2) organisms, (3) brains, (4) cultures, (5) political systems, (6) psychic prisons, (7) flux and transformation, and (8) instruments of domination.