Organizational Symbolism / / ed. by Barry A. Turner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Guy B.,; Aktouf, Omar,; Brissy, Jacques F.,; Calás, Marta Β.,; Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara,; Edgren, Lars D.,; Finkelstein, Ellis,; Gagliardi, Pasquale,; Gahmberg, Henrik,; Grafton-Small, Robert,; Hill Ingersoll, Virginia,; Kahle, Egbert,; Konecki, Krzysztof,; Koss, Ellee,; Linstead, Stephen A.,; McGuire, Jean Β.,; Pihlajamäki, Klara,; Rosen, Michael,; Sievers, Burkard,; Strati, Antonio,; Travers, Andrew,; Turner, Barry Α.,; Witkin, Robert W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Turner, Barry A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables. List of figures -- Introduction -- Part I. Symbolic Aspects of Organizations -- Chapter 1. Painting Over Old Works: The Culture of Organization in an Age of Technical Rationality -- Chapter 2. Interrelations Between Corporate Culture and Municipal Culture: The Lüneburg Saltworks as a Medieval Example -- Chapter 3. Corporate Culture, the Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: A Quebec Experience -- Chapter 4. Dependency and Worker Flirting -- Chapter 5. Culture and Crisis Management in an English Prison -- Part II. Power as a Symbolic Domain -- Chapter 6. Zombies or People – What Is the Product of Work? Some Considerations About the Relation Between Human and Nonhuman Systems in Regard to the Socio-Technical-Systems Paradigm -- Chapter 7. Organizations as Networks of Power and Symbolism -- Chapter 8. Crashing in ’87: Power and Symbolism in the Dow -- Part III. Management, Consultancy, and Metaphor -- Chapter 9. Merchants of Meaning: Management Consulting in the Swedish Public Sector -- Chapter 10. Metaphor Management: On the Semiotics of Strategic Leadership -- Chapter 11. Culture and Management Training: Closed Minds and Change in Managers Belonging to Organizational and Occupational Communities -- Chapter 12. The 'Commando' Model: A Way to Gather and Interpret Cultural Data -- Part IV. Style and Aesthetics -- Chapter 13. The Collusive Manoeuvre: A Study of Organizational Style in Work Relations -- Chapter 14. Aesthetics and Organizational Skill -- Part V. Whole Organizations -- Chapter 15. Computers in Organizations: The (White) Magic of the Black Box -- Chapter 16. The Organizational Sensory System -- Chapter 17. The Dynamics of Organizational States of Being -- Part VI. Against Conclusions: Comments on Theory and Post-Modernism -- Chapter 18. Seeing Through: Symbolic Life and Organization Research in a Postmodern Frame -- Chapter 19. Organizational Bricolage -- Authors’ Biographical Notes -- Backmatter