Authors
Citation
Cl. Walck, ORGANIZATIONS AS PLACES - A METAPHOR FOR CHANGE, Journal of organisational change management, 9(6), 1996, pp. 26
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Management
Journal title
ISSN journal
09534814
Volume
9
Issue
6
Year of publication
1996
Database
ISI
SICI code
0953-4814(1996)9:6<26:OAP-AM>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Organizational theorists have used metaphors such as organism, machine
and language to understand organizations. Develops a new metaphor of
place, based on writing about natural places, to imagine how an organi
zation could radically recreate itself so that a healthy ecology is po
ssible.