Friday 5 February 2010

Barley (1983)

Semiotics and the Study of Occupational and Organizational Cultures
Author: Stephen R. Barley
Source: Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 3 (1983), pp. 393-413.

Thursday 4 February 2010

Manning (1979)

Metaphors of the Field: Varieties of Organizational Discourse
Author: Peter K. Manning
Source: Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 4 (1979), pp. 660-671.

van Maanen (1979)

The Fact of Fiction in Organizational Ethnography
Author: John van Maanen
Source: Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 24, Vol. 4 (1979), pp. 539-550.

Menzies (1960)

A Case Study in the Functioning of Social Systems as a Defense against Anxiety: A Report on a Study of the Nursing Service of a General Hospital
Author: Isabel E. P. Menzies
Source: Human Relations, Vo. 13, No. 2 (1960), pp. 95-121.