Organizational Culture

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 - Rene 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 Kaerreman 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 Kaerreman On Studying Organizational Cultures - Andrew Pettigrew Studying Organizations as Cultures - Linda Smircich