`Left me nourished, stimulated, and encouraged. The book's numerous components flowed smoothly and logically, aided by strong transitions and integrative passages. Given the editor's objective to `reframe' rather than `revisit' organizational culture, I contend they succeeded. The content and extensive bibliography render it an excellent supplement for the academic audience: for those already in the field, the book provides a thorough update and challenge to the cutting edge; for those new to the field, the book offers a balanced and encouraging overview without intimidation.... The merits... to the practitioner audience stem from the concise writing and vivid examples, particularly in Part One and most of Part Two' - Journal of Management With this follow-up to Organizational Culture (SAGE 1985), the editors continue their study of the interaction between investigation and the subject of inquiry. The editors have included a variety of frames as tools that allow readers to examine any empirical piece on organizational culture on its own merits - as good research - while at the same time, permit viewing it from other perspectives as well. Combined with a unique emphasis on process, this volume also includes reflections from the editors, pointing out their values, biases, beliefs, perceptions and experiences in research, and lending a human dimension to the research process.
PART ONE: THINKING ABOUT ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE The Integration Perspective The Role of the Founder in the Creation of Organizational Culture - Edgar H Schein The Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee - Peggy McDonald Developing Organizational Culture in the Short Run Semiotics and the Study of Occupational and Organizational Culture - Stephen R Barley The Differentiation Perspective The Smile Factory - John Van Maanen Work at Disneyland Breakfast at Spiro's - Michael Rosen Dramaturgy and Dominance On the Naming of the Rose - Ed Young Interests and Multiple Meanings as Elements of Organizational Culture Multiple Constituencies and the Quality of Working Life - Jean M Bartunek and Michael K Moch Intervention at FoodCom The Fragmentation Perspective The Vulnerable System - Karl E Weick An Analysis of the Tenerife Air Disaster `Normal' Ambiguity? A Glimpse of an Occupational Culture - Debra E Meyerson The Meanings of Ambiguity - Martha S Feldman Learning from Stories and Metaphors Conclusion Taking a Three-Perspective Approach PART TWO: RESEARCHING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Exploring an Exemplar of Organizational Culture Research Street Corner Society - William Foote Whyte Excerpts from the Appendix to the 1955 Edition On Fieldwork, Symbols, and Folklore in the Writings of William Foote Whyte - Michael Owen Jones Street Corner Society as a Model for Research into Organizational Culture - Alan Bryman Cornerville as Narration - Patricia Riley Critical Epistemology and the Study of Organizational Culture - John M Jermier Reflections on Street Corner Society Comments for the SCS Critics - William Foote Whyte Current Inquiries About Organizational Culture What Is Culture? - Edgar H Schein On Acknowledging and Uncovering Ambiguities in Cultures - Debra E Meyerson Scholars, Travelers and Thieves - Michael Rosen On Concept, Method and Cunning in Organizational Ethnography Culture Is the Medium of Life - Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges Comments and Discussion - Harrison M Trice Framebreaking Masquerade - Anonymous Authors Organizational Culture as Metafiction Context and Choices in Organizational Research PART THREE: AN EPILOGUE AND A CLOSING Looking Back Looking Inward Mirror Talk - Peter J Frost Self-Framing Experiences Along the Culture Trail From Integration to Differentiation to Fragmentation to Feminism - Joanne Martin Musings on Self, Culture, and Inquiry - Craig C Lundberg Reflections on an Interpretive Way of Life - Meryl Reis Louis Inside Aunt Virginia's Kitchen - Larry F Moore Looking Beyond
