Symbols and Artifacts : Views of the Corporate Landscape

Online-Ressource (xvii, 428 p)

De Gruyter studies in organization ; 24

de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 24

Includes bibliographical references

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 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

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

In English

10.1515/9783110874143 [DOI]

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