Book Review
Abstract
Educational Administration Quarterly Vol. 34, No. 2 (April 1998) 277-282 BOOK REVIEW IMAGES OF ORGANIZATION. Gareth Morgan. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997. 485 pages. Reviewed by Colleen L. Larson, Associate Professor, Department of Administration, Leadership and Technology, New York University, New York. After a decade of (ab)use, my original copy of Images of Organization has the tattered look of a well-loved teddy bear: The spine is broken, the cover is ripped and taped, corners are bent, and pages are marked and tom. Students with wry smiles have offered to buy me a new one. Like many of my colleagues, I welcomed Morgan's second edition, not only because I needed a newly bound text, but because over the past decade, there has been a rapid growth in knowledge about postmodern analysis in organization studies. Growing debates regarding the postmodern turn have pushed many of Morgan's methodological arguments one needed step further; therefore, a second edition was needed. BACKGROUND Morgan's first edition of Images was one of those rare books that took organization studies by storm in 1986. In reviews on the book jacket, Donald Schon concluded that the book "rewrites the history of recent organization theory" and Eric Trist