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9780739100011

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780739100011

  • ISBN10:

    0739100017

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-03-11
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
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List Price: $149.00

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

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