Anthropological Perspectives on Organizational Culture

by Hamada, Tomoko; Sibley, Willis E.

• ISBN13: 9780819194862
• ISBN10: 0819194867
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-07-12
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

This work began in the form of an all-day symposium developed by co-editor Willis E. Sibley on the topic of corporate culture. The editors have compiled papers presented by anthropologists concerned with corporate and organizational culture. Contents: Preface, Willis E. Sibley; ANTHROPOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE: PART ONE; ETHNOGRAPHY AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE: PART TWO; Meetings: The Neglected Routine, Helen B. Schwartzman and Rebecca Hanson Berman; Federal Organizational Cultures: Layers and Loci, Shirley J. Fiske; Culture Conflict with Growth: Cases from Silicon Valley, Kathleen Gregory-Huddleston; A Regional Perspective on the Transfer of Japanese Management Practices to the United States, Donald White and Frank Rackerby; Working Here is Like Walking Blindly Into a Dense Forest, Jill Kleinburg; Hollowing of Industrial Ideology: Japanese Corporate Familism in America, Tomoko Hamada and Yujin Yaguchi; Reconstructing Culture Clash at General Motors: An Historical View from the Overseas Assignment, Elizabeth K. Briody and Marietta L. Baba; VOICES FROM THE FIELD: WORKING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE: PART THREE; The Corporation as a Part-Culture, Michael Maccoby; Corporate Culture Studies and Anthropology: An Uneasy Synthesis, Jim R. McLeod and J.A. Wilson; Is Culture "Good" in the Microcosm of the Firm, Manning Nash; Corporate Culture on the Rocks, Peter C. Reynolds; Applying Concepts of Corporate Culture to International Business Management, Anthony J. DiBella; ETHICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE: PART FOUR; Real World Anthropology: The Anthropologist-Client Relationship, Daniela Weinberg; Corporate Social Responsibility: Economic Rationality Encounters Societal Values, Thomas Vetica; Corporate Culture and Social Responsibility: The Case of Toxic Wastes in a New England Community, June Nash and Max Kirsch; Organizational Culture and the Development Crisis, Riall W. Nolan; Subject Index; Notes on Contributors.

Table of Contents

Preface
Anthropology and Organizational Culture	p. 9
Meetings: The Neglected Routine	p. 63
Federal Organizational Cultures: Layers and Loci	p. 95
Culture Conflict with Growth: Cases from Silicon Valley	p. 121
A Regional Perspective on the Transfer of Japanese Management Practices to the United States	p. 133
Working Here is Like Walking Blindly Into a Dense Forest	p. 153
Hollowing of Industrial Ideology: Japanese Corporate Familism in America	p. 193
Reconstructing Culture Clash at General Motors: An Historical View from the Overseas Assignment	p. 219
The Corporation as a Part-Culture	p. 267
Corporate Culture Studies and Anthropology: An Uneasy Synthesis	p. 279
Is Culture "Good" in the Microcosm of the Firm	p. 293
Corporate Culture on the Rocks	p. 301
Applying Concepts of Corporate Culture to International Business Management	p. 311
Real World Anthropology: The Anthropologist-Client Relationship	p. 333
Corporate Social Responsibility: Economic Rationality Encounters Societal Values	p. 341
Corporate Culture and Social Responsibility: The Case of Toxic Wastes in a New England Community	p. 357
Organizational Culture and the Development Crisis	p. 373
Subject Index	p. 397
Notes on Contributors	p. 403
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