Gideon Kunda
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 122444 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gideon Kunda |
| NOMBRES | Gideon |
| APELLIDO | Kunda |
| FIRMA | KUNDA G |
| AFILIACIONES | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 409 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Opinions
Some thoughts about the uses and misuses of the concept of culture
Reflections on becoming an ethnographer
PurposeIn this paper the author aims to examine his own life and work in order to understand how an ethnographic sensibility emerges and develops.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the personal and institutional context in which his book Engineering Culture: Commitment and Control in a High Tech Corporation was researched and written, from formative moments in his life that led him to the study, through the process of finding, entering…
Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies
Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contractors has also grown exponentially, especially in high-technology areas. Yet almost nothing is known about contracting or about the people who do it. This book seeks to br…
Managers, Markets, and Ideologies
In a paper titled ‘Design and Devotion’ published in 1992 in Administrative Science Quarterly, Barley and Kunda examined the historical evolution of managerial ideology in the United States between the late nineteenth and late twentieth century. Managerial ideology, in their view, is ‘a stream of discourse that promulgates, however unwittingly, a set of assumptions about the nature of ... corporations, employees, managers, and the means by which …
Why Do Contractors Contract? The Experience of Highly Skilled Technical Professionals in a Contingent Labor Market
This study examines 52 highly skilled technical contractors' explanations, in 1998, of why they entered the contingent labor force and how their subsequent experiences altered their viewpoint. The authors report three general implications of their examination of the little-studied high-skill side of contingent labor. First, current depictions of contingent work are inaccurate. For example, contrary to the pessimistic “employment relations” perspe…
Bringing Work Back In
In this essay we argue that organization theory's effort to make sense of postbureaucratic organizing is hampered by a dearth of detailed studies of work. We review the history of organization theory to show that, in the past, studies of work provided an empirical foundation for theories of bureaucracy, and explain how such research became marginalized or ignored. We then discuss methodological requirements for reintegrating work studies into org…
Changing Scripts at Work
In this article, the authors explore how structural changes in the labor market for professional and managerial employees might be changing the nature of emotional labor required in these occupations. They first draw on ethnographic data in a firm noted for stable long-term employment to illustrate how efforts to create a corporate culture focus on shaping employees' emotional labor toward displays of loyalty and commitment to their employer. Thi…
Engineering Public Management
Engineering Culture
Engineering Culture grew out of an attempt to take seriously the conceptual and methodological requirements of a cultural perspective on organizations. Briefly, the book is a critical ethnography of a large and successful high-tech corporation lauded in the popular managerial literature for its innovative postbureaucratic “corporate culture.” The corporate culture, the official story went, drove the company’s employees to peaks of corporate perfo…
Engineering Culture
Writing about Reading
Engineering Culture
Engineering Culture
Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies
Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contractors has also grown exponentially, especially in high-technology areas. Yet almost nothing is known about contracting or about the people who do it. This book seeks to br…
Why Do Contractors Contract? The Experience of Highly Skilled Technical Professionals in a Contingent Labor Market
This study examines 52 highly skilled technical contractors' explanations, in 1998, of why they entered the contingent labor force and how their subsequent experiences altered their viewpoint. The authors report three general implications of their examination of the little-studied high-skill side of contingent labor. First, current depictions of contingent work are inaccurate. For example, contrary to the pessimistic “employment relations” perspe…
Changing Scripts at Work
In this article, the authors explore how structural changes in the labor market for professional and managerial employees might be changing the nature of emotional labor required in these occupations. They first draw on ethnographic data in a firm noted for stable long-term employment to illustrate how efforts to create a corporate culture focus on shaping employees' emotional labor toward displays of loyalty and commitment to their employer. Thi…
Reflections on becoming an ethnographer
PurposeIn this paper the author aims to examine his own life and work in order to understand how an ethnographic sensibility emerges and develops.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the personal and institutional context in which his book Engineering Culture: Commitment and Control in a High Tech Corporation was researched and written, from formative moments in his life that led him to the study, through the process of finding, entering…
Opinions
Some thoughts about the uses and misuses of the concept of culture
Writing about Reading
Engineering Culture
Writing about Reading
Engineering Culture
Engineering Culture
Engineering Culture grew out of an attempt to take seriously the conceptual and methodological requirements of a cultural perspective on organizations. Briefly, the book is a critical ethnography of a large and successful high-tech corporation lauded in the popular managerial literature for its innovative postbureaucratic “corporate culture.” The corporate culture, the official story went, drove the company’s employees to peaks of corporate perfo…
Engineering Public Management
Changing Scripts at Work
In this article, the authors explore how structural changes in the labor market for professional and managerial employees might be changing the nature of emotional labor required in these occupations. They first draw on ethnographic data in a firm noted for stable long-term employment to illustrate how efforts to create a corporate culture focus on shaping employees' emotional labor toward displays of loyalty and commitment to their employer. Thi…
Bringing Work Back In
In this essay we argue that organization theory's effort to make sense of postbureaucratic organizing is hampered by a dearth of detailed studies of work. We review the history of organization theory to show that, in the past, studies of work provided an empirical foundation for theories of bureaucracy, and explain how such research became marginalized or ignored. We then discuss methodological requirements for reintegrating work studies into org…
Why Do Contractors Contract? The Experience of Highly Skilled Technical Professionals in a Contingent Labor Market
This study examines 52 highly skilled technical contractors' explanations, in 1998, of why they entered the contingent labor force and how their subsequent experiences altered their viewpoint. The authors report three general implications of their examination of the little-studied high-skill side of contingent labor. First, current depictions of contingent work are inaccurate. For example, contrary to the pessimistic “employment relations” perspe…
Managers, Markets, and Ideologies
In a paper titled ‘Design and Devotion’ published in 1992 in Administrative Science Quarterly, Barley and Kunda examined the historical evolution of managerial ideology in the United States between the late nineteenth and late twentieth century. Managerial ideology, in their view, is ‘a stream of discourse that promulgates, however unwittingly, a set of assumptions about the nature of ... corporations, employees, managers, and the means by which …
Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies
Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contractors has also grown exponentially, especially in high-technology areas. Yet almost nothing is known about contracting or about the people who do it. This book seeks to br…
Reflections on becoming an ethnographer
PurposeIn this paper the author aims to examine his own life and work in order to understand how an ethnographic sensibility emerges and develops.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the personal and institutional context in which his book Engineering Culture: Commitment and Control in a High Tech Corporation was researched and written, from formative moments in his life that led him to the study, through the process of finding, entering…
Opinions
Some thoughts about the uses and misuses of the concept of culture
Political science (9 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Management (4 obras) · Management and Organizational Studies (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Corporation (3 obras) · Engineering (3 obras)