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This paper tackles the main changes that have taken place in the mechanical worldview of simple, self-regulating and intelligent machines, and studies their repercussions at the ethical and organisational level. These views of machines agree with the scientific, human-relations and postmodern proposals in organisation theory, in that they are in fact reflections on human nature which depend on metaphorical devices within which the machine metaphor is central.

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Hirose, L.M. (2008). Organisational Spaces and Intelligent Machines: A Metaphorical Approach to Ethics. In: Gill, S. (eds) Cognition, Communication and Interaction. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-927-9_25

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