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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818579103321
• Autore: Mai Daniel <1984->
• 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
• 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.

Harlem in disorder : a spatial history of how racial violence changed in 1935 / / by Stephen Robertson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910887200103321
• Autore: Robertson Stephen (Stephen Murray)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford University Press; [Stanford, California] : , : Stanford University Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• ISBN: 9781503630451
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color), color maps
• Soggetti: African Americans - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Riots - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Noirs américains - New York (État) - New York - Histoire - 20e siècle; Émeutes - New York (État) - New York - Histoire - 20e siècle; African Americans; Riots; History; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) History 20th century; New York (State) New York; New York (State) New York Harlem
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references
• Sommario/riassunto: "The violence that spread across Harlem on the night of March 19, 1935 was the first large-scale racial disorder in the United States in more than a decade and the first occurrence in the nation's leading Black neighborhood. However, as many observers pointed out, the events were "not a race riot" of the kind that had marked the decades after the Civil War. Racial violence took a new form in 1935. Through a granular analysis of those events and the mapping of their locations, Harlem in Disorder reveals that Harlem's residents participated in a complex new mix of violence that was a multifaceted challenge to white economic and political power. Tracing the legal and government investigations that followed, this project highlights how that violence came to be distorted, diminished, and marginalized by the concern of white authorities to maintain the racial order, and by the unwillingness of Harlem's Black leaders and their white allies to embrace fully such direct forms of protest. Focused on capturing rather than simplifying the complexity of the new form of racial violence, Harlem in Disorder is a multi-layered, hyperlinked narrative that connects different scales of analysis: individual events, aggregated patterns, and a chronological narrative. Its structure foregrounds individual events to counter how data can dehumanize the past, and to make transparent the interpretations involved in the creation of data from uncertain and ambiguous sources."