ISBN:
9780809319428
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (408 p)
Edition:
Expanded
Parallel Title:
Print version Casing a Promised Land, Expanded Edition : The Autobiography of an Organizational Detective as Cultural Ethnographer
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Communication in organizations
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Electronic books
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Organizational behavior
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Ethnology ; Fieldwork
;
Corporate culture
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
H. L. Goodall's ground-breaking study of what people do with symbols and what symbols do to people explores the lives led by people in organizations. His narratives take on the form of six detective mysteries in which the narrator figures into the plot of the intrigue and then works out its essential patterns. In the first mystery, ""Notes on a Cultural Evolution: The Remaking of a Software Company,"" Goodall looks at the transition of a Huntsville regional office of a Boston-based computer software company where the lives and social dramas of the participants reflect the current state of hi
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""What I Do and Why I Do It: Reading Myself into the Stories of Others""; ""1 - Becoming an Organizational Detective""; ""2 - Notes on a Cultural Evolution: The Remaking of a Software Company""; ""3 - The Way the World Ends: Inside Star Wars""; ""4 - Lost in Space: The Layers of Illusion Called Adult Space Camp""; ""5 - Articles of Faith""; ""6 - How I Spent My Summer Vacation""; ""7 - The Consultant as Organizational Detective""; ""8 - Notes on Method""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Afterword: “Surrendering to the Mystery,� or The Sooner You Arrive, the Further You Have to Go""""Influences""; ""About the Author""
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