The strengths of the domination metaphor thus provide the basis for a
truly radical critique of organization and organization theory. However, in
the view of many it goes too far and has a number of serious limitations.
The first and most important of these arises when the perspective is linked
to a crude conspiracy theory of organization and society. Although there is
much evidence to suggest that patterns of domination are class based,
that there is a tendency for the interests of ruling elites to converge in