Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape

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Symbols and Artifacts

Views of the Corporate Landscape

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1990

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Volume 24 | de Gruyter Studies in Organization

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Business and Economics Business Management Business Management, other

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Frontmatter
I

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Introduction
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Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life
3
Pasquale Gagliardi

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Part I: Designing Physical Settings in Organizations
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Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources
41
Olof Berg and Kristian Kreiner

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Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts
69
Michael Rosen, Wanda J. Orlikowski and Kim S. Schmahmann

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Housing Modifications as Organizational Communication
85
Brian Rusted

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Meaning of the Workplace: Using Ideas of Ritual Space in Design
107
Dennis Doxtater

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The Symbolics of Office Design: An Empirical Exploration
129
Mary Jo Hatch

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Designing Dynamic Artifacts: Computer Systems as Formative Contexts
147
Claudio U. Ciborra and Giovan Francesco Lanzara

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Part II: Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through Artifacts
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Colors, Artifacts, and Ideologies
169
Joseph Sassoon

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Photograph Analysis: A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems
185
Deborah Dougherty and Gideon Kunda

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Curing the Monster: Some Images of and Considerations About the Dragon
207
Burkard Sievers

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The Symbolic Value of Computerized Information Systems
233
Christian Scholz

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Car Makers and Marathon Runners: In Pursuit of Culture Through the Language of Leadership
255
Claudia Piccardo, Giuseppe Varchetta and Gianni Zanarini

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Part III: Root Metaphors Embedded in Artifacts
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The C.E.O. as Corporate Myth-Maker: Negotiating the Boundaries of Work and Play at Domino’s Pizza Company
273
Richard Raspa

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Artifacts in a Bureaucratic Monastery
281
Janne Larsen and Majken Schultz

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The Symbol of the Space Shuttle and the Degeneration of the American Dream
303
Howard S. Schwartz

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Part IV: Artifacts and Organizational Control
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The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts
325
Robert W. Witkin

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Linguistic Artifacts at Service of Organizational Control
339
Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges and Bernward Joerges

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Failed Artifacts
365
Barry A. Turner

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Part V: De-Constructing Artifacts
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Theory as Artefact: Artefact as Theory
387
Stephen A. Linstead and Robert Grafton-Small

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The Authors
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Backmatter
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May 2, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110874143

Hardcover published on:

September 1, 1990

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110120127

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17

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428

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110874143

eBook ISBN: 9783110874143

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110120127

Keywords for this book

Corporate Design; Unternehmenskultur

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Symbols and Artifacts

Overview

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life

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

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

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

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

Theory as Artefact: Artefact as Theory

The Authors

Backmatter

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