David G White

Rethinking Culture

Embodied Cognition and the Origin of Culture in Organizations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking Culture describes and presents evidence for a new paradigm of organizational culture. It will be of relevance to academics and researchers with an interest in business and management, organizational culture, and organizational change, as well as cognitive and cultural anthropologists and sociologists interested in applications of theory in organizational and institutional settings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9781138210585
• ISBN-10: 1138210587
• Artikelnr.: 48059793

Autorenporträt

David G. White, Jr., Ph.D. is a cognitive anthropologist who has spent his career working in large organizations as well as entrepreneurial start ups. He is a co-founder of and principal in ONTOS Global, a boutique consulting firm in the alignment of business strategy, change and organizational culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Functionally Embodied Culture
1. What's Wrong with Organizational Culture?
2. The Nature of Grounding: Embodied Cognition, Schemas and Analogical
Transfer
3. Motivated Meaning: Cultural Schemas and Hierarchies
4.Functionally Embodied Culture: The Professional and Strategic Grounding
of Organizational Culture
Part 2: Cultural Schemas in a Diversified Industrial Manufacturer
5. Investigating Schemas: Contexts, Methods and Challenges
6. Seeing Schemas: Research at IMCO
7. Where Culture Comes From: Functional Grounding and its Affordances
8. Functionally Embodied Culture: Possible Limits, or Limitless
Possibilities?