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When I visited the Acropolis at Athens, I remember that beside the wonderful Parthenon there is a smaller temple called Erechtheum, which is dedicated to Athena, goddess of knowledge, war, arts, and justice. This small temple has a world-famous characteristic: Its columns are feminine statues that carry the weight of the roof. They are the caryatids. They serve a very useful purpose, that of preventing the temple from falling down and, in doing that, allow everybody to get into it. It is not in the power of these beautiful statues to decide who can and who cannot enter the temple. The previous chapters are like the caryatids since they bring the theoretical infrastructure up but cannot help state what can and cannot be a future theoretical outcome. They are premises and allow multiple options to become available.
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Secchi, D. (2011). The “Docile” Organization. In: Extendable Rationality. Organizational Change and Innovation, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7542-3_9
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