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Organizational Culture
Mapping the Terrain
- Joanne Martin - IBM, USA (retired), Stanford University, USA
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Organizational Culture
Organizational Culture
October 2001 | 415 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Providing a thorough interdisciplinary overview of organizational culture literature, this book shows how and why researchers have disagreed about such fundamental questions as: What is organizational culture? What are the major theoretical perspectives used to understand cultures in organizations? How can a researcher decipher the political interests inherent in research that claims to be politically neutral merely `descriptive'? It will be useful for graduate students and academics in the fields of organizational culture, qualitative methods and cultural studies.
PART ONE: MAPPING THE CULTURAL TERRAIN
An Introduction and Overview
The Culture Wars
Pieces of the Puzzle
Single-Perspective Theories of Culture
A Three-Perspective Theory of Culture
Interests and Claims of Neutrality
PART TWO: DOING CULTURAL RESEARCH
To Count or Not to Count?
Putting It All Together
Writing about Cultures
PART THREE: EXPLORING THE EDGES OF CULTURAL THEORY
Cultural Boundaries
Terra Incognita
very good book. describes the important role of OC relevant to performance. differentiates between three different perspectives in OC
Will be relevant for final year students more than year 1 or 2
Department of Business, Letterkenny Institute of Technology
October 15, 2014
