Modern Organizations and Emerging Conundrums Exploring the Postindustrial Subculture of the Third Millennium

by Goodman, Richard A.; Atkin, Ian; Barry, Jim; Pettersen, Elisabeth; Bowring, Michle A.; Bubna-Litic, David; Chandler, John; Chevrier, Sylvie; Clark, Heather; Fuglsang, Martin; Garsten, Christina; Guild, Wendy; Hamnett, Janet L.; Hanson, Bruce; Harrison, Ju

• ISBN13: 9780739100011
• ISBN10: 0739100017
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-11
• Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

The contributors to this book review the postindustrial subculture, emphasizing cross-disciplinary and cross-contextual inquiry, a central idiom of postindustrial organizational life. The essays consider alternative methods of understanding media that add variety to "meanings" within and without organizations. This multi-method approach in the search for meaning and the limits of words and symbols to express meaning generates a personally interpretive basis to science.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Emerging Conundrums in Modern Organizations: Exploring the Postindustrial Subculture of the Third Millennium	1	(10)
Richard A. Goodman
In Search of What is Left Out in the Medium of Words	11	(10)
Ulla Johansson
SECTION ONE	21	(52)
The Complex Culture of International Project Teams	23	(11)
Richard A. Goodman
Margaret E. Phillips
Sonja A. Sackmann
The Subculture of International Work Teams: Toward International Professional Cultures?	34	(9)
Sylvie Chevrier
Understanding Multicultural Acquisitions Through Ambiguity and Communication	43	(10)
Anette Risberg
Asian Modernity or ``Creolization'': With Weber to Singapore and Back Again	53	(15)
Gro Kvale
Elisabeth Pettersen
Section Summary: When Subcultures Meet	68	(5)
Richard A. Goodman
SECTION TWO	73	(76)
Masters of Symbol: My Travels in Thought and Work Life in the Czech Republic	75	(8)
Kathryn S. Rogers
The Sexy Biotechnology: A Postmodern Phenomenological Observation of Contradiction and Meaning	83	(8)
Martin Fuglsang
Researching the Experience of Women in ``Man''agement Across Cultures: A Feminist Standpoint Approach	91	(18)
Iiris Aaltio-Marjosola
Sarah Williams Jacobson
Text, Gender and Future Realities	109	(17)
Monica Lee
Accounting for the Caprices of Madness: Narrative Fiction as a Means of Organizational Transcendence	126	(17)
Burkard Sievers
Section Summary: Methods of Engaging Subcultures	143	(6)
Richard A. Goodman
SECTION THREE	149	(56)
Dances with Shadows, Dance Clubs, Mirrored Balls and Reflected Pleasures	151	(13)
Ian Atkin
Mike Lowe
Using Categories to Provide Customized Service: Meanings Created in Ski Resort Subcultures	164	(12)
Wendy Guild
Capturing Memories: The Tourist Experience	176	(8)
Julia Harrison
Art as Life---Life as Art: The Embededness of Art in Life and Life in Art in Postmodernity	184	(16)
Laurie A. Meamber
Section Summary: Service, Intimacy, Leisure	200	(5)
Richard A. Goodman
SECTION FOUR	205	(74)
Modern and Postmodern Cultural Themes and Structures in British Radio Drama	207	(19)
M. L. James
B. James
Eye of the Camera: An Exploration of Organizational Life as Portrayed on Television	226	(14)
Michele A. Bowring
Euro Disney: A Cross-Cultural Communications Failure?	240	(8)
Janet L. Hamnett
Symbol-Intensive Organizations: Management in the Age of Metaphor and Rhetoric	248	(13)
Virpi Leikola
Thomaz Wood Jr.
The Business of Media: Organizing Carnival by the New Entrepreneurs	261	(13)
Ken Khoury
Dick Raspa
Section Summary: Media and Carnival	274	(5)
Richard A. Goodman
SECTION FIVE	279	(58)
Loose Links and Tight Attachments: Modes of Employment and Meaning-Making in a Changing Labor Market	281	(12)
Christina Garsten
Competition: The Structuring of Postindustrial Organizational Life	293	(16)
Patricia Riley
Lisa Howard
Too Scattered to Provide a Critical Mass?: Women and Managerialism in two UK Universities	309	(12)
Heather Clark
John Chandler
Jim Barry
The Road and the Stream: On the Method of Crossing Over to a ``Wet'' Culture	321	(12)
Bruce Hanson
Section Summary: Loose Connections, Belongingness and Community	333	(4)
Richard A. Goodman
SECTION SIX	337	(58)
Servants of Greed: Postindustrial Subculture(s) from a Buddhist Perspective	339	(17)
David Bubna-Litic
Yogic Principles and Management Practice	356	(10)
Elisabeth M. Wilson
The Return of ``The Invisible Hand''	366	(11)
Omid Nodoushani
Battling with the Gods: Workers, Management and the Deities of Postindustrial Management Culture	377	(13)
Edward Wray-Bliss
Hugh Willmott
Section Summary: Personal Meaning and Exploitation	390	(5)
Richard A. Goodman
About the Contributors	395