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Despite The Surge Of Interest Over The Last Decade In Cultural Phenomena In Organizations, Researchers Of Widely Differing Disciplinary Backgrounds, Epistemologies, Methodological Preferences, And Political Ideologies Continue To Disagree About Fundamental Issues - With Good Reason. Consolidating A Diverse Array Of Theoretical And Empirical Studies Into An Analytical Framework That Clarifies And Challenges The Assumptions That Have Guided Organizational Culture Research, This Pathbreaking Book Delineates Three Competing Perspectives And Offers A Way Out Of The Conceptual Chaos Caused By Conflicts Among These Viewpoints. This Analysis Acknowledges Incommensurabilities Without Creating Pressures Toward Assimilation, While Offering Insights Unavailable To Any Single Perspective. Exploring Links To Major Intellectual Developments (postmodernism, Feminist Theory, Environmental Dependence) Within And Outside Of Organizational Theory, Cultures In Organizations Brings A Critical, Interdisciplinary Perspective To The Field. This Theoretical Approach Has An Extensive Empirical Base, Drawing On Studies Of A Wide Variety Of Organizations, Including A Large Multi-national Electronics Corporation, The Peace Corps, Universities, Small Non-profit Organizations, And Several Large And Small Private-sector Companies. By Alternating Between Theoretical Abstractions And Studies Of Particular Organizations, Joanne Martin Delineates And Bridges Divergent Approaches To The Study Of Cultures In Organizations, Offering A Breadth And An Openness To Multiple Viewpoints Not Available Elsewhere.--jacket. Cover; Contents; 1. Seeing Cultures From Different Points Of View; 2. Ozco: Gathering The Data; 3. Ozco: An Integration View; 4. The Integration Perspective: Harmony And Homogeneity; 5. Ozco: A Differentiation View; 6. The Differentiation Perspective: Separation And Conflict; 7. Ozco: A Fragmentation View; 8. The Fragmentation Perspective: Multiplicity And Flux; 9. Cultural Change: Moving Beyond A Single Perspective; 10. Giving Up The Authority Game: A Postmodern Critique Of The Three-perspective Framework; References; Index. Joanne Martin. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 205-218) And Index. English.