Description: Introduction 1. Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life Part I: Designing Physical Settings in Organizations 2. Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources 3. Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts 4. Housing Modifications as Organizational Communication 5. Meaning of the Workplace: Using Ideas of Ritual Space in Design 6. The Symbolics of Office Design: An Empirical Exploration 7. Designing Dynamic Artifacts: Computer Systems as Formative Contexts Part II: Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through Artifacts 8. Colors, Artifacts, and Ideologies 9. Photograph Analysis: A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems 10. Curing the Monster: Some Images of and Considerations About the Dragon 11. The Symbolic Value of Computerized Information Systems 12. Car Makers and Marathon Runners: In Pursuit of Culture Through the Language of Leadership Part III: Root Metaphors Embedded in Artifacts 13. The C.E.O. as Corporate Myth-Maker: Negotiating the Boundaries of Work and Play at Domino's Pizza Company 14. Artifacts in a Bureaucratic Monastery 15. The Symbol of the Space Shuttle and the Degeneration of the American Dream Part IV: Artifacts and Organizational Control 16. The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts 17. Linguistic Artifacts at Service of Organizational Control 18. Failed Artifacts Part V: De-Constructing Artifacts 19. Theory as Artefact: Artefact as Theory

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