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Organizational Cultures of Remembrance

Daniel Mai
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.
Autor: Mai, Daniel
EAN: 9783110425635
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 396
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: De Gruyter de Gruyter, Walter, GmbH
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 19.05.2015
Untertitel: Exploring the Relationships between Memory, Identity, and Image in an Automobile Company
Schlagworte: Autoindustrie - Automobilindustrie Industrie / Autoindustrie Erinnerungskultur Geschichte Historie Führung / Mitarbeiterführung Mitarbeiterführung Museum Non Books / Schreibwaren Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Größe: 27 × 160 × 236
Gewicht: 742 g