Casing a Promised Land, Expanded Edition : the Autobiography of an Organizational Detective as Cultural Ethnographer.

H.L. Goodall's ground-breaking study of what people do with symbols and what symbols do to people explores the lives led by people in organizations. His narratives take on the form of six detective mysteries in which the narrator figures into the plot of the intrigue and then works out its esse...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Goodall, H. Lloyd (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
Subjects:	Communication in organizations. Corporate culture. Ethnology > Fieldwork. Organizational behavior. Communication in organizations Corporate culture Ethnology > Fieldwork Organizational behavior
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; What I Do and Why I Do It: Reading Myself into the Stories of Others; 1
Becoming an Organizational Detective; 2
Notes on a Cultural Evolution: The Remaking of a Software Company; 3
The Way the World Ends: Inside Star Wars; 4
Lost in Space: The Layers of Illusion Called Adult Space Camp; 5
Articles of Faith; 6
How I Spent My Summer Vacation; 7
The Consultant as Organizational Detective; 8
Notes on Method; Afterword: "Surrendering to the Mystery," or The Sooner You Arrive, the Further You Have to Go; Influences.

Casing a Promised Land, Expanded Edition : the Autobiography of an Organizational Detective as Cultural Ethnographer.

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