ESCP Europe

Item type

Book

Language

anglais

Pages

421 p.

Publication year

1986

Content notes

1. Introduction 2. Mechanization takes command: organisations as machines 3. Nature intervenes: organisations as organisms 4. Toward self-organisation: organisations as brains 5. Creating social reality: organisations as cultures 6. Interests, conflict and power: organisations as political systems 7. Exploring Plato's cave: organisations as psychic prisons 8. Unfolding logics of change: organisation as flux and transformation 9. The ugly face: organisations as instruments of domination 10. Developing the art of organisational analysis 11. Imagination: a direction for the future

1. Introduction 2. Mechanization takes command: organisations as machines 3. Nature intervenes: organisations as organisms 4. Toward self-organisation: organisations as brains 5. Creating social reality: organisations as cultures 6. Interests, conflict and power: organisations as political systems 7. Exploring Plato's cave: organisations as psychic prisons 8. Unfolding logics of change: organisation as flux and transformation 9. The ugly face: organisations as instruments of domination 10. Developing the art of organisational analysis 11. Imagination: a direction for the future.