Symbols and Artifacts : : Views of the Corporate Landscape / / ed. by Pasquale Gagliardi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Berg, Olof,; Ciborra, Claudio U.,; Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara,; Dougherty, Deborah,; Doxtater, Dennis,; Gagliardi, Pasquale,; Grafton-Small, Robert,; Hatch, Mary Jo,; Joerges, Bernward,; Kreiner, Kristian,; Kunda, Gideon,; Lanzara, Giovan Francesco,; Larsen, Janne,; Linstead, Stephen A.,; Orlikowski, Wanda J.,; Piccardo, Claudia,; Raspa, Richard,; Rosen, Michael,; Rusted, Brian,; Sassoon, Joseph,; Schmahmann, Kim S.,; Scholz, Christian,; Schultz, Majken,; Schwartz, Howard S.,; Sievers, Burkard,; Turner, Barry A.,; Varchetta, Giuseppe,; Witkin, Robert W.,; Zanarini, Gianni,
• HerausgeberIn: Gagliardi, Pasquale,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Part II: Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through Artifacts -- Colors, Artifacts, and Ideologies -- Photograph Analysis: A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems -- Curing the Monster: Some Images of and Considerations About the Dragon -- 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 -- Artifacts in a Bureaucratic Monastery -- The Symbol of the Space Shuttle and the Degeneration of the American Dream -- Part IV: Artifacts and Organizational Control -- 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 -- Backmatter