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- Introduction
- Part I. Symbolic Aspects of Organizations
- Chapter 1 Painting Over Old Works: The Culture of Organization in an Age of Technical Rationality
- 1.1 The Misplacement of Culture
- 1.1.1 Recent Literature on Culture and Organization
- 1.1.2 The Fundamental Shift That Wasnāt
- 1.2 Technical Rationality: The Culture of Organization
- 1.3 The Managerial Metamyth
- 1.4 The Culture of Organization: A Case Example
- 1.4.1 The Washington State Ferry System
- 1.4.2 Setting the Stage for the Imposition
- 1.4.3 The Imposition Begins in Earnest
- 1.4.4 Enter: The Managerial Metamyth
- 1.4.5 The Role of Automation
- 1.4.6 Aspects of DOT Ascendancy
- 1.4.7 The Imposition of Cultural Elements
- 1.5 A Culture-Sensitive Approach to the Study of Organization
- Chapter 2 Interrelations Between Corporate Culture and Municipal Culture: The LĆ¼neburg Saltworks as a Medieval Example
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The General Conditions
- 2.3 The Organizational Symbolism
- 2.4 The Interrelations of Corporate and Municipal Culture
- 2.5 Conclusions
- Chapter 3 Corporate Culture, the Catholic Ethic, and the Spirit of Capitalism: A Quebec Experience
- 3.1 Foreword
- 3.2 Genesis of Capitalism and Evolutionary Differences Between the Ethics of Northern and Southern Europe from the 13th to the 18th Century
- 3.3 The āUnorthodoxā Management Style of the Cascades Company of Quebec: Crystallization of Elements of Another Capitalist Ethic?
- 3.4 Conclusions
- Chapter 4 Dependency and Worker Flirting
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Flirting
- 4.3 Parasexual Behavior in the Relations Between Press Operators and Fitters
- 4.4 New Workers and Worker Flirting
- 4.5 Conclusions
- Chapter 5 Culture and Crisis Management in an English Prison
- 5.1 The Prison
- 5.2 The Role of the Governor
- 5.3 The Christmas Rota
- 5.4 The New Governor
- 5.5 The Manpower Team
- 5.6 Conclusion
- Part II. Power as a Symbolic Domain
- Chapter 6 Zombies or People - What Is the Product of Work? Some Considerations About the Relations Between Human and Nonhuman Systems in Regard to the Socio-Technical-Systems Paradigm
- Chapter 7 Organizations as Networks of Power and Symbolism
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.1.1 Literature Review
- 7.1.2 From Networks to Networking
- 7.2 Interorganizational Relations as Networks of Power and Symbolic Action
- 7.2.1 Power Relationship and Symbolic Action as Dynamic Interdependences
- 7.3 A and B: Two Networks of Mental Health Organizations
- 7.3.1 The Organizations
- 7.3.2 Method
- 7.3.3 A and B: Power Relationships and Symbolic Actions
- 7.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 8 Crashing in ā87: Power and Symbolism in the Dow
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The Falling Sky: On Power, Culture, Control, and Consent
- 8.3 Postmodernism, Commodities, and Consent
- 8.4 Setting Your Own Stage
- 8.5 Letās Listen to Dad
- 8.6 Smart Guys Donāt Lose and Corporations Canāt
- 8.7 In the Aftermath: Theory Redux
- Part III. Management, Consultancy, and Metaphor
- Chapter 9 Merchants of Meaning: Management Consulting in the Swedish Public Sector
- 9.1 Organizational Talk and Organizational Control
- 9.2 The Study
- 9.3 Diagnostics and Labels
- 9.4 Modelling and Metaphors
- 9.5 Creating Talking Networks
- 9.6 Teaching Languages
- 9.7 What Do Consultants Do?
- Chapter 10 Metaphor Management: On the Semiotics of Strategic Leadership
- 10.1 Strategy Shaping as Culture
- 10.2 The Management of Meaning Paradigm
- 10.3 Metaphors in Strategic Decision Making
- 10.4 āTangibilitationā
- 10.5 The Roots of Leading Symbols
- 10.6 A Study of Values Behind Symbols
- Chapter 11 Culture and Management Training: Closed Minds and Change in Managers Belonging to Organizational and Occupational Communities
- 11.1 An Introduction: The Impact of the Cultural Approach on a Management Centre
- 11.2 The Research Project
- 11.3 The Main Findings of the Research Project
- 11.3.1 The Effect of the Programme on Individiual Dogmatism
- 11.3.2 Individual Dogmatism and Reference Cultures
- Chapter 12 The āCommandoā Model: A Way to Gather and Interpret Cultural Data
- 12.1 The Concept of Organizational Culture
- 12.2 Some Starting-Points and Foundations
- 12.2.1 Perspective
- 12.2.2 Level of Abstraction
- 12.3 Data Gathering
- 12.3.1 Interviews
- 12.3.2 Observation
- 12.3.3 Secondary Data
- 12.3.4 The Cultural Keys
- 12.3.5 Selection
- 12.3.6 Simulated Situations and Metaphors
- 12.4 Interpretation
- 12.5 Presentation
- 12.6 Operation Hot Cat
- 12.6.1 The Task
- 12.6.2 The Birth of the Commando Model
- 12.6.3 Three Steps
- 12.7 Summary
- Part IV. Style and Aesthetics
- Chapter 13 The Collusive Manoeuvre: A Study of Organizational Style in Work Relations
- 13.1 Organizational Style
- 13.2 An Organizational Problematic
- 13.3 Material and Culture Values in Job Evaluation
- 13.4 The Situational Frame
- 13.4.1 Usurpationary Challenge
- 13.4.2 Corporate Impediment
- 13.4.3 Key Organization Personnel
- 13.5 The Blocking Phase
- 13.6 The Collusive Phase
- 13.7 Analysis
- 13.8 Conclusion
- Chapter 14 Aesthetics and Organizational Skill
- Part V. Whole Organizations
- Chapter 15 Computers in Organizations: The (White) Magic of the Black Box
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.1.1 The Mysteries of Cybernetically-Based, Computer-Assisted Management Control
- 15.1.2 A Note on Microcomputers
- 15.1.3 We Agree That It Is There, but We Disagree on What It Means
- 15.2 The Analyst: From Analogy to Model to Utopia
- 15.3 The Participants: From Mystery to Magic to Alchemy
- 15.4 Is There a Pilot in This Aircraft?
- Chapter 16 The Organizational Sensory System
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Visual and Acoustic Space
- 16.2.1 Visual Space
- 16.2.2 Acoustic Space
- 16.2.3 The Relationship Between Eye and Ear
- 16.3 Tactile Space
- 16.4 Organizational Senses and Spaces
- 16.4.1 Senses
- 16.4.2 Spaces
- 16.5 The Empirical Case
- 16.6 Methodological Issues
- 16.6.1 Methodological Problems
- 16.6.2 The Applied Method
- 16.7 Some Empirical Manifestations
- 16.7.1 Introduction
- 16.7.2 Media and Their Interplay
- 16.7.3 Cultural Context
- 16.7.4 Space Dynamics
- 16.7.5 Organizational Tactility
- 16.8 Concluding Remarks
- Chapter 17 The Dynamics of Organizational States of Being
- 17.1 Vision
- 17.1.1 Qualities and Characteristics
- 17.1.2 Operating Principles
- 17.1.3 Implications
- 17.2 Fusion/Diffusion
- 17.2.1 Qualities and Characteristics
- 17.2.2 Operating Principles
- 17.2.3 Implications
- 17.3 Confusion
- 17.3.1 Qualities and Characteristics
- 17.3.2 Operating Principles
- 17.3.3 Implications
- 17.4 General Implications for Organizations
- 17.4.1 Critical Assumptions
- 17.4.2 Dynamic Principles
- 17.4.3 Entropie Principle
- 17.4.4 Evolutionary Principle
- 17.4.5 āNo Rulesā Principle
- 17.4.6 The Dynamics of Subsystems
- 17.4.7 Entropie Approach
- 17.4.8 Evolutionary Approach
- 17.4.9 Critical Mass Approach
- 17.4.10 āNo Rulesā Approach
- 17.5 Conclusion
- Part VI. Against Conclusions: Comments on Theory and Post-Modernism
- Chapter 18 Seeing Through: Symbolic Life and Organization Research in a Postmodern Frame
- 18.1 The Frame of āSeeing Through: Symbolic Life and Organization Research in a Postmodern Frameā
- 18.2 It Is Impossible
- 18.3 What Is Metafiction?
- 18.4 Seeing Through?
- 18.5 Travers in One of His Own Voices
- 18.6 The Writing on the Wall
- 18.7 Research
- Chapter 19 Organizational Bricolage
- 19.1 Organizational Bricolage
- 19.2 What Is Bricolage
- 19.3 Sperber and Symbolism
- 19.4 The New Semiotics
- 19.5 Eco and Anthropology
- 19.6 Textuality
- 19.7 One Green Bottle
- 19.7.1 The Production and Employment of Objects Used for Transforming the Relationship Between Man and Nature
- 19.7.2 The Economic Exchange of Goods
- 19.7.3 Kinship Relations as the Primary Nucleus of Institutionalized Social Relations
- 19.8 The Name of the Roses
- 19.9 After the Fact, as Theory Arose
- 19.10 Against Conclusions
- Authorsā Biographical Notes