Organizational Symbolism

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables. List of figures -- Introduction / Turner, Barry Α. -- Part I. Symbolic Aspects of Organizations -- Chapter 1. Painting Over Old Works: The Culture of Organization in an Age of Technical Rationality / Adams, Guy B. / Hill Ingersoll, Virginia -- Chapter 2. Interrelations Between Corporate Culture and Municipal Culture: The Lüneburg Saltworks as a Medieval Example / Kahle, Egbert -- Chapter 3. Corporate Culture, the Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: A Quebec Experience / Aktouf, Omar -- Chapter 4. Dependency and Worker Flirting / Konecki, Krzysztof -- Chapter 5. Culture and Crisis Management in an English Prison / Finkelstein, Ellis -- Part II. Power as a Symbolic Domain -- Chapter 6. Zombies or People – What Is the Product of Work? Some Considerations About the Relation Between Human and Nonhuman Systems in Regard to the Socio-Technical-Systems Paradigm / Sievers, Burkard -- Chapter 7. Organizations as Networks of Power and Symbolism / Calás, Marta Β. / McGuire, Jean Β. -- Chapter 8. Crashing in ’87: Power and Symbolism in the Dow / Rosen, Michael -- Part III. Management, Consultancy, and Metaphor -- Chapter 9. Merchants of Meaning: Management Consulting in the Swedish Public Sector / Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara -- Chapter 10. Metaphor Management: On the Semiotics of Strategic Leadership / Gahmberg, Henrik -- Chapter 11. Culture and Management Training: Closed Minds and Change in Managers Belonging to Organizational and Occupational Communities / Gagliardi, Pasquale -- Chapter 12. The 'Commando' Model: A Way to Gather and Interpret Cultural Data / Edgren, Lars D. -- Part IV. Style and Aesthetics -- Chapter 13. The Collusive Manoeuvre: A Study of Organizational Style in Work Relations / Witkin, Robert W. -- Chapter 14. Aesthetics and Organizational Skill / Strati, Antonio -- Part V. Whole Organizations -- Chapter 15. Computers in Organizations: The (White) Magic of the Black Box / Brissy, Jacques F. -- Chapter 16. The Organizational Sensory System / Pihlajamäki, Klara -- Chapter 17. The Dynamics of Organizational States of Being / Koss, Ellee -- Part VI. Against Conclusions: Comments on Theory and Post-Modernism -- Chapter 18. Seeing Through: Symbolic Life and Organization Research in a Postmodern Frame / Travers, Andrew -- Chapter 19. Organizational Bricolage / Linstead, Stephen A. / Grafton-Small, Robert -- Authors’ Biographical Notes -- Backmatter