1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460426803321

Autore

Mai Daniel <1984->

Titolo

Organizational cultures of remembrance : exploring the relationships between memory, identity, and image in an automobile company / / Daniel Mai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-042068-6

3-11-042082-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Collana

Media and Cultural Memory, , 1613-8961 ; ; Volume 21 = Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung

Disciplina

338.7/6292220943

Soggetti

Organizational behavior

Collective memory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Cultural Perspective on Organizational Remembrance in Corporations -- 3. Empirical Research Design -- 4. Audi Tradition in its Role as the Official Carrier of Organizational Remembrance -- 5. Purposes and Cultural Forms of Organizational Remembrance -- 6. Multiple Stakeholders of the Corporate Past -- 7. Organizational Remembrance as a Historical Process of Evolution and Differentiation -- 8. The Emergence of Historical Consciousness among the Workforce -- 9. Construing Organizational Reality through Retrospection -- 10. Constructing Identities in Light of the Corporate Past -- 11. Conclusion -- 12. Appendix -- Primary Material Cited -- Academic Works Cited -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910426042203321

Autore

Song Hui

Titolo

Solar-energy-mediated methane conversion over nanometal and semiconductor catalysts / / Hui Song

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

981-334-157-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 142 p. 92 illus., 84 illus. in color.)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

661.814

Soggetti

Materials science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Visible-light-mediated methane activation for steam methane reforming over Rh/TiO2 catalysts under mild conditions -- Direct photocatalytic oxidation of methane to liquid oxygenates with molecular oxygen over nanometals/ZnO catalysts -- General Conclusion and Future Prospects -- Curriculum Vitae.

Sommario/riassunto

This book demonstrates that solar energy, the most abundant and clean renewable energy, can be utilized to drive methane activation and



conversion under mild conditions. The book reports that coupling solar energy and thermal energy can significantly enhance methane conversion at mild temperatures using plasmonic nanometal-based catalysts, with a substantial decrease in apparent activation energy of methane conversion. Furthermore, this book, for the first time, reports the direct photocatalytic methane oxidation into liquid oxygenates (methanol and formaldehyde) with only molecular oxygen in pure water at room temperature with high yield and selectivity over nanometals and semiconductors (zinc oxide and titanium dioxide). These findings are a big stride toward methane conversion and inspire researchers to develop strategies for efficient and selective conversion of methane to high-value-added chemicals under mild conditions.