Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate LandscapePasquale Gagliardi A selection of 18 papers from an international conference in Milan, June 1987, organized by the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism. Details how corporate artifacts are invested with meaning, are related to control, and can be used as cultural indicators in research. Among the topics are office design, housing modifications, computer systems, and the space shuttle. Fairly devoid of specialist jargon. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Designing Physical Settings in Organizations | 37 |
Corporate Architecture Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources | 39 |
Building Buildings and Living Lives A Critique of Bureaucracy Ideology and Concrete Artifacts | 67 |
Housing Modifications as Organizational Communication | 83 |
Meaning of the Workplace Using Ideas of Ritual Space in Design | 105 |
The Symbolic Value of Computerized Information Systems | 231 |
Car Makers and Marathon Runners In Pursuit of Culture Through the Language of Leadership | 253 |
Root Metaphors Embedded in Artifacts | 269 |
The CEO as Corporate MythMaker Negotiating the Boundaries of Work and Play at Dominos Pizza Company | 271 |
Artifacts in a Bureaucratic Monastery | 279 |
The Symbol of the Space Shuttle and the Degeneration of the American Dream | 301 |
Artifacts and Organizational Control | 321 |
The Aesthetic Imperative of a RationalTechnical Machinery A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts | 323 |
The Symbolics of Office Design An Empirical Exploration | 127 |
Designing Dynamic Artifacts Computer Systems as Formative Contexts | 145 |
Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through Artifacts | 165 |
Colors Artifacts and Ideologies | 167 |
Photograph Analysis A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems | 183 |
Curing the Monster Some Images of and Considerations About the Dragon | 205 |
Linguistic Artifacts at Service of Organizational Control | 337 |
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Theory as Artefact Artefact as Theory | 385 |
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