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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (428 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.
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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