Lexington Books
Pages: 410
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-0-7391-0001-1 • Hardback • March 1999 • $149.00 • (£115.00)
Richard A. Goodman is Co-Chair of the Strategy and Organization Faculty at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. He has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics, the Rotterdam Business School, and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
chapter 1 Section One: Emerging Conundrums in Modern Organizations
chapter 2 In Search of What is Left Out in the Medium of Words
chapter 3 The Complex Culture of International Project Teams
chapter 4 The Subculture of International Work Teams
chapter 5 Understanding Multicultural Acquisitions Through Ambiguity and Communication
chapter 6 Asian Modernity or "Creolization"
chapter 7 When Sub-Cultures Meet
chapter 8 Section Two: Masters of Symbol: My Travels in Thought and Work Life in the Czech Republic
chapter 9 The Sexy Biotechnology
chapter 10 Observation of Contradiction and Meaning
chapter 11 Researching the Experience of Women in "Man"agement Across Cultures
chapter 12 Text, Gender, and Future Realities
chapter 13 Accounting for the Caprices of Madness
chapter 14 Methods of Engaging Sub-Cultures
chapter 15 Section Three: Dances With Shadows, Dance Clubs, Mirrored Balls and Reflected Pleasures
chapter 16 Using Categories to Provide Customized Service: Meanings Created in Ski Resort Sub-Cultures
chapter 17 Capturing Memories
chapter 18 Art as Life-Life as Art
chapter 19 Service, Intimacy, and Leisure
chapter 20 Section Four: Modern and Post-Modern Cultural Themes and Structures in British Radio Drama
chapter 21 Eye of the Camera: An Exploration of Organizational Life as Portrayed on Television
chapter 22 Euro Disney: A Cross-Cultural Communications Failure?
chapter 23 Symbol Intensive Organizations
chapter 24 The Business of Media
chapter 25 Media and Carnival
chapter 26 Section Five: Loose Links and Tight Attachments
chapter 27 Competition: The Structuring of Post-Industrial Organizational Life
chapter 28 Too Scattered to Provide a Critical Mass? Women and Managerialism in Two U.K. Universities
chapter 29 The Road and the Stream: On the Method of Crossing Over to a "Wet" Culture
chapter 30 Loose Connections, Belongingness and Community
chapter 31 Section Six: Servants of Greed: Post-Industrial Sub-Culture(s) From a Buddhist Perspective
chapter 32 Yogic Principles and Management Practice
chapter 33 Battling With the Gods: Workers, Management, and the Deities of Post Industrial Management Culture
chapter 34