Hi Joseph,
>Is there a General Theory of Organisations?
snip
>Can anyone recommend a book, or point to a resource, where this has
>been done?
You must try Images of Organisation by Gareth Morgan.
It explores eight metaphors as different perspectives to look at
organisations and discribes what can be learnt by these perspectives, but
also the limits if ones thinking is fixed to only one of these metaphors.
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried Dressler
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