Used in an even more proactive mode, the domination metaphor also
shows a way of creating an organization theory for the exploited. In
exposing the seamy side of organizational life, whether in terms of structured inequality, institutionalized racism, occupational accidents and disease, or exploitation in the Third World, and in attempting to develop
theories to account for these phenomena, the organization theorist has
a means of using organization theory as an instrument for social
change. Those interested in pursuing this agenda thus make much of the
possibility of developing a radical organization theory to counter the
influence of more conventional theory, which they see as serving and reinforcing vested interests embodied in the status quo.