Organizational Culture

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bath, and also affiliated with Lund University, Stockholm School of Economics and Bayes Business School, City, University of London.

VOLUME ONE
Part One: Anthropological Roots and Inspirations
Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture - Clifford Geertz
Theories of Culture Revisited - Roger Keesing
Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties - Sherry Ortner
Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies - Ann Swidler
Part Two: Societal Culture
Introduction to The Triumph of Emptiness: Zero-Sum Games, Grandiosity, and Illusion Tricks - M. Alvesson
Motivation, Leadership and Organization: Do American Theories Apply Abroad? - Geert Hofstede
Hofstede’s Model of National Cultural Differences and Their Consequences: A Triumph of Faith – A Failure of Analysis - Brendan McSweeney
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony - John Meyer and Brian Rowan
Part Three: Basic Perspectives
Culture as a Metaphor and Metaphors for Culture - Mats Alvesson
Negations and Ambiguities in the Cultures of Organization - Allen Batteau
Native-View Paradigms: Multiple Cultures and Culture Conflicts in Organizations - Kathleen Gregory
Cultural Change: An Integration of Three Different Views - Debra Meyerson and Joanne Martin
The Concept of Organizational Culture: Why Bother? - Edgar Schein
Concepts of Culture and Organizational Analysis - Linda Smircich
VOLUME TWO
Part Four: Types of Organizational Cultures
Measuring Organizational Cultures: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study across Twenty Cases - Geert Hofstede, Bram Neuijen, Denise Daval Ohayv and Geert Sanders
A Distributed Cognition Perspective on Newcomers’ Change Processes: The Movement of Cognitive Uncertainty in Two Investment Banks - A. Alexandra Michel
Shades of Culture and Institutions in International Mergers - René Olie
Markets, Bureaucracies and Clans - William Ouchi
Part Five: Change
Organization Change as a Symbolic Transformation Process - Per Olof Berg
Coerced Practice Implementation in Cases of Low Cultural Fit: Cultural Change and Practice Adaptation during the Implementation of Six Sigma at 3M - Anna Canato, Davide Ravasi and Nelson Phillips
Can Change in Organizational Culture Really Be Managed? A Synthesis - Thomas Fitzgerald
The Creation and Change of Organizational Cultures: A Conceptual Framework - Pasquale Gagliardi
Developing a Market Orientated Culture: A Critical Evaluation - Lloyd Harris and Emmanuel Ogbonna
Can Organizational Culture Be Managed? - Walter Nord
Part Six: Leadership of or by Culture
An Institutional Theory of Leadership - Nicole Biggart and Gary Hamilton
Management as Symbolic Action: The Creation and Maintenance of Organizational Paradigms - Jeffrey Pfeffer
Leadership: The Management of Meaning - Linda Smircich and Gareth Morgan
VOLUME THREE
Part Seven: Control and Resistance
‘Being Yourself’ in the Electronic Sweatshop: New Forms of Normative Control - Peter Fleming and Andrew Sturdy
Culture and Organization - Gideon Kunda
Breakfast at Spiro’s: Dramaturgy and Dominance - Michael Rosen
The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland - John Van Maanen
Strength Is Ignorance; Slavery Is Freedom: Managing Culture in Modern Organizations - Hugh Willmott
Part Eight: Culture and Organizational Identity
The Dynamics of Organizational Identity - Mary Jo Hatch and Majken Schulz
Narratives of Organizational Identity and Identification: A Case Study of Hegemony and Resistance - Michael Humphries and Andrew Brown
Making Newsmakers: Conversational Identity at Work - Dan Kärreman and Mats Alvesson
Responding to Organizational Identity Threats: Exploring the Role of Organizational Culture - Davide Ravasi and Majken Schultz
Part Nine: Organizational Symbolism
Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources - Per Olof Berg and Kristian Kreiner
Information in Organizations as Signal and Symbol - Martha Feldman and James March
The Unmanaged Organization: Stories, Fantasies and Subjectivity - Yiannis Gabriel
Dexterity with Symbols - Robert Jackall
The Uniqueness Paradox in Organizational Stories - Joanne Martin, Martha Feldman, Mary Jo Hatch and Sim Sitkin
On Key Symbols - Sherry Ortner
VOLUME FOUR
Part Ten: Gender
An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms - Robin Ely and Debra Meyerson
Organizational Symbolism, Culture and Gender - Silvia Gherardi
Serving Hamburgers and Selling Insurance: Gender, Work and Identity in Interactive Service Jobs - Robin Leidner
Part Eleven: Groups and Differentiation
‘One Mirror in Another’: Managing Diversity and the Discourse of Fashion - Anshuman Prasad, Pushkala Prasad and Raza Mir
Occupational Communities: Culture and Control in Organizations - John Van Maanen and Stephen Barley
On the Naming of the Rose: Interests and Multiple Meanings as Elements of Organizational Culture - Ed Young
Part Twelve: Methods in Studying Organizational Culture
A Methodology of Sorts for Theorizing from Empirical Material - Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman
On Studying Organizational Cultures - Andrew Pettigrew
Studying Organizations as Cultures - Linda Smircich