Organizational Symbolism

Herausgegeben:Turner, Barry A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• De Gruyter Studies in Organization 19
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• 1989.
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9783110110517
• ISBN-10: 3110110512
• Artikelnr.: 23978975

Inhaltsangabe

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