Symbols and artifacts : views of the corporate landscape /: views of the corporate landscape. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pasquale Gagliardi, editor.
• Other Names: Gagliardi, Pasquale, 1936-
• Contents: Artifacts as pathways and remains of organizational life / Pasquale Gagliardi -- Corporate architecture: turning physical setting into symbolic resources / Per Olof Berg, Kristian Kreiner -- Building buildings and living lives: a critique of bureaucracy, ideology and concrete artifacts / Michael Rosen, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Kim S. Schmahamann -- Housing modifications as organizational communication / Brian Rusted -- Meaning of the workplace: using ideas of ritual space in design / Dennis Doxtater -- The symbolics of office design: an empirical exploration / Mary Jo Hatch -- Designing dynamic artifacts: computer systems as formative contexts / Claudio U. Ciborra, Giovan Francesco Lanzara. Colors, artifacts, and ideologies / Joseph Sassoon -- Photography analysis: a method to capture organizational belief systems / Deborah Doughtery, Gideon Kunda -- Curing the monster: some images of and considerations about the dragon / Burkard Sievers -- The symbolic value of computerized information systems / Christian Scholz -- Car makers and marathon runners: in pursuit of culture through the language of leadership / Claudia Piccardo, Giuseppe Varchetta, Gianni Zanarini -- The C.E.O. as corporate myth-maker: negotiating the boundaires of work and play at Domino's Pizza company / Richard Raspa. Artifacts in a bureaucratic monastery / Janne Larsen, Majken Schultz -- The symbol of the space shuttle and the degeneration of the American dream / Howard S. Schwartz -- The aesthetic imperative of a rational-technical machinery: a study in organizational control through the design of artifacts / Robert W. Witkin -- Linguistic artifacts at service of organizational control / Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, Bernward Joerges -- Failed artifacts / Barry A. Turner -- Theory as artefact: artefact as theory / Stephen A. Linstead, Robert Grafton-Small.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (428 pages)
• Subjects: 302.3/5; Corporate culture; Signs and symbols; Culture d'entreprise; Signes et symboles; Corporate culture; Signs and symbols; Symbol; Unternehmenskultur; Kongress; Kongreß -- Mailand -- 1987; Mailand (1987)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351487290; 1351487299
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.