ISBN:
0899255698
,
3110120127
,
9783110120127
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 428 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
De Gruyter studies in organization 24
Parallel Title:
Print version Symbols and Artifacts : Views of the Corporate Landscape
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Corporate culture
;
Signs and symbols
;
Unternehmenskultur
;
Corporate Design
Abstract:
Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape (de Gruyter Studies in Organization)
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction; Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life; Part I: Designing Physical Settings in Organizations; Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources; Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts; Housing Modifications as Organizational Communication; Meaning of the Workplace: Using Ideas of Ritual Space in Design; The Symbolics of Office Design: An Empirical Exploration; Designing Dynamic Artifacts: Computer Systems as Formative Contexts
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II: Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through ArtifactsColors, Artifacts, and Ideologies; Photograph Analysis: A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems; Curing the Monster: Some Images of and Considerations About the Dragon; Part IV: Artifacts and Organizational Control; The Symbolic Value of Computerized Information Systems; Car Makers and Marathon Runners: In Pursuit of Culture Through the Language of Leadership; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Artifacts in a Bureaucratic MonasteryThe Symbol of the Space Shuttle and the Degeneration of the American Dream; The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts; Linguistic Artifacts at Service of Organizational Control; Failed Artifacts; Part V: De-Constructing Artifacts; Theory as Artefact: Artefact as Theory; The Authors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1515/9783110874143
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