Photograph Analysis: A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction
3. Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life 3
4. Part I: Designing Physical Settings in Organizations
5. Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources 41
6. Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts 69
7. Housing Modifications as Organizational Communication 85
8. Meaning of the Workplace: Using Ideas of Ritual Space in Design 107
9. The Symbolics of Office Design: An Empirical Exploration 129
10. Designing Dynamic Artifacts: Computer Systems as Formative Contexts 147
11. Part II: Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through Artifacts
12. Colors, Artifacts, and Ideologies 169
13. Photograph Analysis: A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems 185
14. Curing the Monster: Some Images of and Considerations About the Dragon 207
15. The Symbolic Value of Computerized Information Systems 233
16. Car Makers and Marathon Runners: In Pursuit of Culture Through the Language of Leadership 255
17. Part III: Root Metaphors Embedded in Artifacts
18. The C.E.O. as Corporate Myth-Maker: Negotiating the Boundaries of Work and Play at Domino’s Pizza Company 273
19. Artifacts in a Bureaucratic Monastery 281
20. The Symbol of the Space Shuttle and the Degeneration of the American Dream 303
21. Part IV: Artifacts and Organizational Control
22. The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts 325
23. Linguistic Artifacts at Service of Organizational Control 339
24. Failed Artifacts 365
25. Part V: De-Constructing Artifacts
26. Theory as Artefact: Artefact as Theory 387
27. The Authors 421
28. Backmatter 429