Organizational Cultures Of Remembrance

Author : Daniel Mai
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110420685

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Organizational Cultures of Remembrance by Daniel Mai Pdf

In a business world predominantly oriented toward the future, it has paradoxically become ever more common that companies turn towards their pasts. This book empirically explores the phenomenon of organizational remembrance from a holistic cultural perspective. Based on a twelve-month ethnographic case study conducted at the headquarters of the German automobile company, AUDI AG, this study dissects the relationships between memory, identity, and image in a corporate setting. The greater aim in doing so is twofold: First, this study examines exactly why and how a company officially manages its past in terms of ‘history’ and ‘tradition.’ And second, this study scrutinizes what effect organizational remembrance has on the workforce – how it impacts their collective identification with a corporate community and influences their understanding of their daily working life. By investigating the interplay between different stakeholder groups, as well as their practices, media, mental models, and other vehicles of remembrance, an integrated account is offered which makes sense of the complex cultural forces at work in the corporate handling of the past, the present, and the future.

Author : Alon Confino
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807830420

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Germany As a Culture of Remembrance by Alon Confino Pdf

An acknowledged authority on German history and memory, Alon Confino presents in this volume an original critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific case of Germany. In ten essays (three never before publishe

Author : Johannes Glückler,Roy Suddaby,Regina Lenz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319753287

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Knowledge and Institutions by Johannes Glückler,Roy Suddaby,Regina Lenz Pdf

This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepreneurship, art and cultural heritage, often at regional scales across Europe and North America. Rooted in the disciplines of management and organization studies, sociology, geography, political science, and economics the contributors all take comprehensive approaches to carve out the specific contextuality of institutions as well as their impact on societal outcomes. Not only does this book offer detailed insights into current debates in institutional theory, it also provides background for scholars, students, and professionals at the intersection between regional development, policy-making, and regulation.

Author : Felix Langenmayr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658128685

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Organisational Memory as a Function by Felix Langenmayr Pdf

This book is about the past as well as the future in organisations in general and about an organisation’s temporal contextualisation in particular. The author analyses, how organisations are able to construct a present with respect to their past and future. The study is based on an empirical case study, in which an R&D department has been followed for a six month-period in order to analyse how an organisation orients itself with respect to its past, present and future from the perspective of communication-centred social systems theory.

Author : Steve Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351325066

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Memory as a Moral Decision by Steve Feldman Pdf

The notion of organizational culture has become a matter of central importance with the great increase in the size of organizations in the twentieth century and the need for managers to run them. Like morale in the military, organizational culture is the great invisible force that decides the difference between success and failure and serves as the key to organizational change, productivity, effectiveness, control, innovation, and communication. Memory as a Moral Decision, provides a historical review of the literature on organizational culture. Its goal is to investigate the kind of world conceptualized by those who have described organizations and the kind of moral world they have in fact constructed, through its ideals and images, for the men and women who work in organizations.Feldman builds his analysis around a historically grounded concept of moral tradition. He demonstrates a central insight: when those who have written on organizational culture have addressed issues of ethics, they have ignored the past as a foundation to stabilize and maintain moral commitments. Instead, they have fluctuated between attempts to base ethics on executive rationality and attempts to escape the suffocating logic of rationalism. After an opening chapter defining the concept of moral tradition, Feldman focuses on early works on organizational management by Chester Barnard and Melville Dalton. These define the tension between ethical rationalism and ethical relativism. He then turns to contemporary frameworks, analyzing critical organizational theory and the "new institutionalism." In the final chapters, Feldman considers ethical relativism in contemporary thinking, including postmodern organization theory, the exaggerated drive for diversity, and such concepts as power/knowledge and deconstructionism.Memory as a Moral Decision is unique in its understanding of organizational culture as it relates to past, present, and future systems. Its interdisciplinary approach uses the insights of sociology, psychology, and culture studies to create an invaluable framework for the study of ethics in organizations.

Author : Andrea Casey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317365143

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Organizational Identity and Memory by Andrea Casey Pdf

Organizational Identity and Memory analyzes the relationship between organizational identity and organizational memory, in particular history and commemoration. The goal is to further our understanding of the role of this relationship in processes critical to today’s organizations: the evolution of organizational identity, the creation and use of organizational memory, organizational learning and change, and employee identification with organizations. The literature on organizational memory and organizational identity has developed independently and at times in separate disciplines. Scholars have debated whether organizational identity is mutable or enduring. In this debate, organizational history, a form of organizational memory, has been a key factor, but neither side of the debate has pursued indepth the well-developed literature on collective memory to understand this relationship and its impact on organizational identity. Organizational memory defined as commemoration and history has been connected to different forms of identity, both national and organizational, but this relationship and its impact on organizational memory processes has not been explored. Organizational Identity and Memory takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore and articulate the dynamic relationship between organizational identity and memory, drawing on work from anthropology, history, organizational studies, and sociology. A multidisciplinary theoretical framework for future research on organizational identity and memory is presented. Implications for managers are discussed with engaging insights from organizational research and practices in creating corporate museums, galleries, visitor centers, and other displays of this relationship.

Author : Steven Paul Feldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business ethics
ISBN : OCLC:1036694894

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Memory as a Moral Decision by Steven Paul Feldman Pdf

Author : M. Allen
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137341637

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The Labour of Memory by M. Allen Pdf

This book presents a study of remembrance practices emerging after the 2005 London bombings. Matthew Allen explores a range of cases that not only illustrate the effects of the organisation of remembrance on its participants, but reveal how people engaged in memorial culture to address difficult and unbearable conditions in the wake of 7/7.

Author : Christina Kraenzle,Maria Mayr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319391526

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The Changing Place of Europe in Global Memory Cultures by Christina Kraenzle,Maria Mayr Pdf

This book investigates the transnational dimensions of European cultural memory and how it contributes to the construction of new non-, supra, and post-national, but also national, memory narratives. The volume considers how these narratives circulate not only within Europe, but also through global interactions with other locations. The Changing Place of Europe in Global Memory Cultures responds to recent academic calls to break with methodological nationalism in memory studies. Taking European memory as a case study, the book offers new empirical and theoretical insights into the transnational dimensions of cultural memory, without losing sight of the continued relevance of the nation. The articles critically examine the ways in which various individuals, organizations, institutions, and works of art are mobilizing future-oriented memories of Europe to construct new memory narratives. Taking into account the heterogeneity and transnational locations of commemorative groups, the multidirectionality of acts of remembrance, and a variety of commemorative media such as museums, film, photography, and literature, the volume not only investigates how memory discourses circulate within Europe, but also how they are being transferred, translated, or transformed through global interactions beyond the European continent.

Author : Nicolas Pethes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781527535619

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Cultural Memory Studies by Nicolas Pethes Pdf

This volume provides an overview of theories of cultural memory that are intensively discussed in cultural studies and humanities disciplines such as history, sociology, literary studies, art history, and media studies. Cultural memory encompasses all rituals, institutions and practices through which communities establish their identity and common origin, which are challenged by the digital turn today. The book presents, on the one hand, basic arguments by the most important memory theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries and, on the other, exemplary descriptions of the most significant forms of cultural memory.

Author : A. Erll
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230321670

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Memory in Culture by A. Erll Pdf

This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting current international and interdisciplinary memory research in an unprecedented way.

Author : Veysel Apaydin i
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787354845

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Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage by Veysel Apaydin i Pdf

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural heritage where groups and communities ascribe values, develop memories, and shape their collective identity.

Author : Peer Zumbansen
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056922415

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NS-forced Labor by Peer Zumbansen Pdf

Juristen und Historiker behandeln die Geschichte und Aufarbeitung von Zwangsarbeit im Dritten Reich, die Formen des Arbeitseinsatzes, die Nachkriegsvölkerrechtspraxis und -gesetzgebung, die Gerichtsverfahren in Deutschland und den USA, die Stiftungsgründung und Entschädigungspraxis seit August 2000.

Author : Chiara De Cesari,Ann Rigney
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110359107

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Transnational Memory by Chiara De Cesari,Ann Rigney Pdf

How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book charts the rich production of memory across and beyond national borders. Arguing for the fruitfulness of a transnational as distinct from a global approach, it places the issues of circulation, articulation and the scales of remembrance at the centre of its inquiry. In the process, it sheds new light on the ways in which mediation, post-coloniality, migration and regional integration affect both the way we remember and the role of memory in contemporary societies. In this interdisciplinary collection, humanities and social science scholars examine a rich sample of cases from the nineteenth century on, stretching across the globe from Vietnam to Europe and the Middle East, to the USA and the Pacific, and involving a wide range of cultural practices from quilting to films, from photography to heritage sites and monuments. In the process, the volume develops a new theoretical framework while proposing new methodological tools and resources for studying collective remembrance beyond the nation-state.

Author : Graham Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351527644

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Commemorating War by Graham Dawson Pdf

War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes that have led to this development, among them the passing of the two world wars from survivor into cultural memory. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, the book illuminates the struggle to install particular memories at the center of a cultural world, and offers an extensive argument about how the politics of commemoration practices should be understood. Commemorating War analyzes a range of forms of remembrance, from public commemorations orchestrated by nation-states to personal testimonies of war survivors; and from cultural memories of war represented in films, plays and novels to investigations of wartime atrocities in courts of human rights. It presents a wide range of international case studies, encompassing lesser-known national histories and wars beyond the well-trodden terrain of Vietnam and the two world wars in Europe. Emerging from this book is an important critique of both "state-centered" approaches to war memory and those that regard commemoration primarily as a human response to loss and grief. Offering a wealth of empirical research material, this book will be important for cultural and oral historians, sociologists, researchers in international relations and human rights, and anybody with an interest in the cultural construction of memory in contemporary society.