Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape

Published by De Gruyter 1990

Symbols and Artifacts

Views of the Corporate Landscape

Edited by: Pasquale Gagliardi

Volume 24 in the series de Gruyter Studies in Organization

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110874143

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Introduction
Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life Pasquale Gagliardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Part I: Designing Physical Settings in Organizations
Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources Olof Berg and Kristian Kreiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts Michael Rosen, Wanda J. Orlikowski and Kim S. Schmahmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Housing Modifications as Organizational Communication Brian Rusted Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Meaning of the Workplace: Using Ideas of Ritual Space in Design Dennis Doxtater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
The Symbolics of Office Design: An Empirical Exploration Mary Jo Hatch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Designing Dynamic Artifacts: Computer Systems as Formative Contexts Claudio U. Ciborra and Giovan Francesco Lanzara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Part II: Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through Artifacts
Colors, Artifacts, and Ideologies Joseph Sassoon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Photograph Analysis: A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems Deborah Dougherty and Gideon Kunda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Curing the Monster: Some Images of and Considerations About the Dragon Burkard Sievers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
The Symbolic Value of Computerized Information Systems Christian Scholz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Car Makers and Marathon Runners: In Pursuit of Culture Through the Language of Leadership Claudia Piccardo, Giuseppe Varchetta and Gianni Zanarini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
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 Richard Raspa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Artifacts in a Bureaucratic Monastery Janne Larsen and Majken Schultz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
The Symbol of the Space Shuttle and the Degeneration of the American Dream Howard S. Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Part IV: Artifacts and Organizational Control
The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts Robert W. Witkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Linguistic Artifacts at Service of Organizational Control Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges and Bernward Joerges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Failed Artifacts Barry A. Turner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Part V: De-Constructing Artifacts
Theory as Artefact: Artefact as Theory Stephen A. Linstead and Robert Grafton-Small Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
The Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Reprint 2010
Pages
- Front matter: 17
- Main content: 428
Illustrations
- Other: Num. figs. and tabs.
Keywords: Corporate Design; Unternehmenskultur

eBook

Published: May 2, 2011
ISBN: 9783110874143

Hardcover

Published: September 1, 1990
ISBN: 9783110120127