Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life -- Part I: Designing Physical Settings in Organizations -- Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources -- Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts -- Housing Modifications as Organizational Communication -- Meaning of the Workplace: Using Ideas of Ritual Space in Design -- The Symbolics of Office Design: An Empirical Exploration -- Designing Dynamic Artifacts: Computer Systems as Formative Contexts -- Part II: Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through Artifacts -- Colors, Artifacts, and Ideologies -- Photograph Analysis: A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems -- Curing the Monster: Some Images of and Considerations About the Dragon -- The Symbolic Value of Computerized Information Systems -- Car Makers and Marathon Runners: In Pursuit of Culture Through the Language of Leadership -- Part III: Root Metaphors Embedded in Artifacts -- The C.E.O. as Corporate Myth-Maker: Negotiating the Boundaries of Work and Play at Domino's Pizza Company -- Artifacts in a Bureaucratic Monastery -- The Symbol of the Space Shuttle and the Degeneration of the American Dream -- Part IV: Artifacts and Organizational Control -- The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts -- Linguistic Artifacts at Service of Organizational Control -- Failed Artifacts -- Part V: De-Constructing Artifacts -- Theory as Artefact: Artefact as Theory -- The Authors -- Backmatter