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The myth of the organisational silo: or, clever t**s and silly robins

HEPI

The term ‘silo’ invokes a mystifying metaphor – that of the university as a living, intelligent organism. Since corporations are alive, then for de Geus, they have an immune system that responds when the organism is attacked by ‘individuals or groups of individuals who do not want to be part of the whole’.