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Understanding organizational culture / Mats Alvesson.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2013.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781446271810
  • 1446271811
  • 9781446289662
  • 1446289664
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.35 23
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The Concept of Organizational Culture -- 2. Culture as a Metaphor and Metaphors for Culture -- 3. Organizational Culture and Identity -- 4. Organizational Culture and Performance -- 5. Organizational Culture, Strategy and Marketing -- 6. Organizational Culture and Leadership -- 7. Work and Multiple Levels of Culture -- 8. Ambiguity of Culture -- 9. Culture as Constraint: An Emancipatory Approach -- 10. Cultural Change -- 11. Conclusions.
Summary: "Unlike other prescriptive books about organizations, Understanding Organizational Culture challenges and provokes critical thinking, giving insight in to the field of organizational culture. Mats Alvesson answers questions of definition, explores alternative perspectives, and expands on substantive issues before discussing key issues of research synthesizes for students the advances in the field of organizational culture. The author also uses examples to develop and illustrate ideas on how cultural thinking can be used in managerial and non-managerial organizational theory and theory-supported practice."--Publisher's website.
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Originally published in 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index.

1. The Concept of Organizational Culture -- 2. Culture as a Metaphor and Metaphors for Culture -- 3. Organizational Culture and Identity -- 4. Organizational Culture and Performance -- 5. Organizational Culture, Strategy and Marketing -- 6. Organizational Culture and Leadership -- 7. Work and Multiple Levels of Culture -- 8. Ambiguity of Culture -- 9. Culture as Constraint: An Emancipatory Approach -- 10. Cultural Change -- 11. Conclusions.

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"Unlike other prescriptive books about organizations, Understanding Organizational Culture challenges and provokes critical thinking, giving insight in to the field of organizational culture. Mats Alvesson answers questions of definition, explores alternative perspectives, and expands on substantive issues before discussing key issues of research synthesizes for students the advances in the field of organizational culture. The author also uses examples to develop and illustrate ideas on how cultural thinking can be used in managerial and non-managerial organizational theory and theory-supported practice."--Publisher's website.

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