Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation - Softcover

Kunda, Gideon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592135463 ISBN 13: 9781592135462

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2006

Synopsis

'Engineering Culture' offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated 'corporate culture'. It uses detailed descriptions of everyday interactions and rituals in which the culture is brought to life.

About this title

From the Publisher

An analysis of corporate culture from the inside

Culture Section Book Award, American Sociological Association

AAUP Book Jacket Award

From the Inside Flap

"[P]rovides a much needed balance to the organizational-culture literature that is sweeping the organizational-behavior field and...making its way into popular culture."
—Paul DiMaggio

"Kunda finds a dark side to the new management desire to 'bind employees' hearts and minds to the corporate interest.'... The pervasive employee response is irony—acceptance and detachment at the same time. Thus the culture undermines itself."
—Sloan Management Review

"Using detailed descriptions of everyday rituals and interactions in which the 'corporate culture' is brought to life, as well as excerpts of in-depth interviews, the author portrays vividly the tension caused by managerial control and the forms of individual experience it produces."
—Science Books & Films

"[Engineering Culture] is a wonderfully ironic account of corporate life in the fast lanes of the high-tech trades.... Kunda's display of the emotional underlife of organizational fun-and-games is a most revealing one."
—John Van Maanen, MIT

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592135463
• ISBN 13: 9781592135462
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320