TY - BOOK AU - Berg,Olof AU - Ciborra,Claudio U. AU - Czarniawska-Joerges,Barbara AU - Dougherty,Deborah AU - Doxtater,Dennis AU - Gagliardi,Pasquale AU - Grafton-Small,Robert AU - Hatch,Mary Jo AU - Joerges,Bernward AU - Kreiner,Kristian AU - Kunda,Gideon AU - Lanzara,Giovan Francesco AU - Larsen,Janne AU - Linstead,Stephen A. AU - Orlikowski,Wanda J. AU - Piccardo,Claudia AU - Raspa,Richard AU - Rosen,Michael AU - Rusted,Brian AU - Sassoon,Joseph AU - Schmahmann,Kim S. AU - Scholz,Christian AU - Schultz,Majken AU - Schwartz,Howard S. AU - Sievers,Burkard AU - Turner,Barry A. AU - Varchetta,Giuseppe AU - Witkin,Robert W. AU - Zanarini,Gianni TI - Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape T2 - de Gruyter Studies in Organization SN - 9783110120127 AV - HD58.7 .S96 1990eb U1 - 302.3/5302.35 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Corporate culture KW - Signs and symbols KW - Corporate Design KW - Unternehmenskultur KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Introduction --; Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life --; Part I: Designing Physical Settings in Organizations --; 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 --; Part II: Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through Artifacts --; 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 --; Part III: Root Metaphors Embedded in Artifacts --; 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 --; Part IV: Artifacts and Organizational Control --; 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 --; Part V: De-Constructing Artifacts --; Theory as Artefact: Artefact as Theory --; The Authors --; Backmatter; restricted access UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110874143 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110874143 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110874143/original ER -