Corporate Culture and Organizational Symbolism - An Overview

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List of contents

Frontmatter -- Part I: The Research Field: Development and Status -- 1 The Emergence of the Culture Concept -- 2 Why is Organizational Culture so Popular? -- 3 The Research Field Today -- Part II: Different Theoretical Perspectives -- 4 Object Levels -- 5 Cultural Phenomena in Organizations -- 6 Conventions and Perspectives in the Research Field -- Part III: Culture and Symbolism in Practice -- 7 Managing Organizational Cultures -- 8 Symbolic Management -- Part IV: Discussions and Conclusions -- 9 The Current Debate -- 10 Conclusions, Perspectives and Speculations -- References -- Index

About the author

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Lund, Sweden. Research interests include critical theory, gender, power, management of professional service (knowledge intensive) organizations, organizational culture and symbolism, qualitative methods and philosophy of science.

Product details

• Authors: Mats Alvesson, Per O. Berg
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• EAN: 9783110121544
• ISBN: 978-3-11-012154-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 25 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 559 g
• Illustrations: 10 b/w ill., 1 b/w tbl., Num.figs.
• Series: Gruyter Studies in Organization; de Gruyter Studies in Organization; de Gruyter Studies in Organization
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration