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Understanding Organizational Culture.(Book Review)
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Administrative Science Quarterly
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March 1, 2003
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- Gagliardi, Pasquale
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Mats Alvesson. London: Sage, 2002. 214 pp. $31.00, paper.
This book is the most recent and most authoritative attempt to furnish an overall and systematic picture of the study of organizations as cultures. It warrants attention because the author has been one of the leading proponents in Europe of that particular intellectual movement known as "organizational symbolism," which was born at the end of the 1970s as a marginal and anticonformist movement and has rapidly come to the fore as one of the most important currents of thought and research in organizational studies. Alvesson has written numerous works in this field, with the ambition of both innovating the theory ...