Symbols and artifacts : views of the corporate landscape / editor, Pasquale Gagliardi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gagliardi, Pasquale, 1936-

Series:

de Gruyter Studies in Organization

de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate culture.

Signs and symbols.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape (de Gruyter Studies in Organization).

Contents:

Front matter

Introduction

Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life / Gagliardi, Pasquale

Part I: Designing Physical Settings in Organizations

Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources / Berg, Olof / Kreiner, Kristian

Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts / Rosen, Michael / Orlikowski, Wanda J. / Schmahmann, Kim S.

Housing Modifications as Organizational Communication / Rusted, Brian

Meaning of the Workplace: Using Ideas of Ritual Space in Design / Doxtater, Dennis

The Symbolics of Office Design: An Empirical Exploration / Hatch, Mary Jo

Designing Dynamic Artifacts: Computer Systems as Formative Contexts / Ciborra, Claudio U. / Lanzara, Giovan Francesco

Part II: Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through Artifacts

Colors, Artifacts, and Ideologies / Sassoon, Joseph

Photograph Analysis: A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems / Dougherty, Deborah / Kunda, Gideon

Curing the Monster: Some Images of and Considerations About the Dragon / Sievers, Burkard

The Symbolic Value of Computerized Information Systems / Scholz, Christian

Car Makers and Marathon Runners: In Pursuit of Culture Through the Language of Leadership / Piccardo, Claudia / Varchetta, Giuseppe / Zanarini, Gianni

Part III: Root Metaphors Embedded in Artifacts

The C.E.O. as Corporate Myth-Maker: Negotiating the Boundaries of Work and Play at Domino's Pizza Company / Raspa, Richard

Artifacts in a Bureaucratic Monastery / Larsen, Janne / Schultz, Majken

The Symbol of the Space Shuttle and the Degeneration of the American Dream / Schwartz, Howard S.

Part IV: Artifacts and Organizational Control

The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts / Witkin, Robert W.

Linguistic Artifacts at Service of Organizational Control / Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara / Joerges, Bernward

Failed Artifacts / Turner, Barry A.

Part V: De-Constructing Artifacts

Theory as Artefact: Artefact as Theory / Linstead, Stephen A. / Grafton-Small, Robert

The Authors

Back matter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110874143

3110874148

OCLC:

843635206