This collection of key papers has been meticulously put together by acclaimed editor Mats Alvesson, and covers themes including culture, image and identity, socialisation, leadership, power and conflict, ethics and communication and much more.    

VOLUME ONE Part One: Anthropological Roots and Inspirations Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture - Clifford Geertz Theories of Culture Revisited - Roger Keesing Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties - Sherry Ortner Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies - Ann Swidler Part Two: Societal Culture Introduction to The Triumph of Emptiness: Zero-Sum Games, Grandiosity, and Illusion Tricks - M. Alvesson Motivation, Leadership and Organization: Do American Theories Apply Abroad? - Geert Hofstede Hofstede’s Model of National Cultural Differences and Their Consequences: A Triumph of Faith – A Failure of Analysis - Brendan McSweeney Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony - John Meyer and Brian Rowan Part Three: Basic Perspectives Culture as a Metaphor and Metaphors for Culture - Mats Alvesson Negations and Ambiguities in the Cultures of Organization - Allen Batteau Native-View Paradigms: Multiple Cultures and Culture Conflicts in Organizations - Kathleen Gregory Cultural Change: An Integration of Three Different Views - Debra Meyerson and Joanne Martin The Concept of Organizational Culture: Why Bother? - Edgar Schein Concepts of Culture and Organizational Analysis - Linda Smircich VOLUME TWO Part Four: Types of Organizational Cultures Measuring Organizational Cultures: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study across Twenty Cases - Geert Hofstede, Bram Neuijen, Denise Daval Ohayv and Geert Sanders A Distributed Cognition Perspective on Newcomers’ Change Processes: The Movement of Cognitive Uncertainty in Two Investment Banks - A. Alexandra Michel Shades of Culture and Institutions in International Mergers - René Olie Markets, Bureaucracies and Clans - William Ouchi Part Five: Change Organization Change as a Symbolic Transformation Process - Per Olof Berg Coerced Practice Implementation in Cases of Low Cultural Fit: Cultural Change and Practice Adaptation during the Implementation of Six Sigma at 3M - Anna Canato, Davide Ravasi and Nelson Phillips Can Change in Organizational Culture Really Be Managed? A Synthesis - Thomas Fitzgerald The Creation and Change of Organizational Cultures: A Conceptual Framework - Pasquale Gagliardi Developing a Market Orientated Culture: A Critical Evaluation - Lloyd Harris and Emmanuel Ogbonna Can Organizational Culture Be Managed? - Walter Nord Part Six: Leadership of or by Culture An Institutional Theory of Leadership - Nicole Biggart and Gary Hamilton Management as Symbolic Action: The Creation and Maintenance of Organizational Paradigms - Jeffrey Pfeffer Leadership: The Management of Meaning - Linda Smircich and Gareth Morgan VOLUME THREE Part Seven: Control and Resistance ‘Being Yourself’ in the Electronic Sweatshop: New Forms of Normative Control - Peter Fleming and Andrew Sturdy Culture and Organization - Gideon Kunda Breakfast at Spiro’s: Dramaturgy and Dominance - Michael Rosen The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland - John Van Maanen Strength Is Ignorance; Slavery Is Freedom: Managing Culture in Modern Organizations - Hugh Willmott Part Eight: Culture and Organizational Identity The Dynamics of Organizational Identity - Mary Jo Hatch and Majken Schulz Narratives of Organizational Identity and Identification: A Case Study of Hegemony and Resistance - Michael Humphries and Andrew Brown Making Newsmakers: Conversational Identity at Work - Dan Kärreman and Mats Alvesson Responding to Organizational Identity Threats: Exploring the Role of Organizational Culture - Davide Ravasi and Majken Schultz Part Nine: Organizational Symbolism Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources - Per Olof Berg and Kristian Kreiner Information in Organizations as Signal and Symbol - Martha Feldman and James March The Unmanaged Organization: Stories, Fantasies and Subjectivity - Yiannis Gabriel Dexterity with Symbols - Robert Jackall The Uniqueness Paradox in Organizational Stories - Joanne Martin, Martha Feldman, Mary Jo Hatch and Sim Sitkin On Key Symbols - Sherry Ortner VOLUME FOUR Part Ten: Gender An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms - Robin Ely and Debra Meyerson Organizational Symbolism, Culture and Gender - Silvia Gherardi Serving Hamburgers and Selling Insurance: Gender, Work and Identity in Interactive Service Jobs - Robin Leidner Part Eleven: Groups and Differentiation ‘One Mirror in Another’: Managing Diversity and the Discourse of Fashion - Anshuman Prasad, Pushkala Prasad and Raza Mir Occupational Communities: Culture and Control in Organizations - John Van Maanen and Stephen Barley On the Naming of the Rose: Interests and Multiple Meanings as Elements of Organizational Culture - Ed Young Part Twelve: Methods in Studying Organizational Culture A Methodology of Sorts for Theorizing from Empirical Material - Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman On Studying Organizational Cultures - Andrew Pettigrew Studying Organizations as Cultures - Linda Smircich