03224nam 2200685 450 991045489740332120200520144314.00-8093-8156-70-585-13130-9(CKB)111004368576888(EBL)1990255(SSID)ssj0000118568(PQKBManifestationID)12034946(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000118568(PQKBWorkID)10057515(PQKB)10761427(MiAaPQ)EBC1990255(OCoLC)43476675(MdBmJHUP)muse45916(Au-PeEL)EBL1990255(CaPaEBR)ebr11035352(CaONFJC)MIL752915(OCoLC)905992577(EXLCZ)9911100436857688819931221h19941994 ub| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCasing a promised land the autobiography of an organizational detective as cultural ethnographer /H.L. Goodall, JrExpanded edition.Carbondale :Southern Illinois University Press,[1994]©19941 online resource (408 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-336-21629-8 0-8093-1942-X Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-203).Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; What I Do and Why I Do It: Reading Myself into the Stories of Others; 1 - Becoming an Organizational Detective; 2 - Notes on a Cultural Evolution: The Remaking of a Software Company; 3 - The Way the World Ends: Inside Star Wars; 4 - Lost in Space: The Layers of Illusion Called Adult Space Camp; 5 - Articles of Faith; 6 - How I Spent My Summer Vacation; 7 - The Consultant as Organizational Detective; 8 - Notes on Method; Afterword: "Surrendering to the Mystery," or The Sooner You Arrive, the Further You Have to Go; InfluencesAbout the AuthorH. L. Goodall's ground-breaking study of what people do with symbols and what symbols do to people explores the lives led by people in organizations. His narratives take on the form of six detective mysteries in which the narrator figures into the plot of the intrigue and then works out its essential patterns. In the first mystery, ""Notes on a Cultural Evolution: The Remaking of a Software Company,"" Goodall looks at the transition of a Huntsville regional office of a Boston-based computer software company where the lives and social dramas of the participants reflect the current state of hiOrganizational behaviorCorporate cultureCommunication in organizationsEthnologyFieldworkElectronic books.Organizational behavior.Corporate culture.Communication in organizations.EthnologyFieldwork.302.3/5Goodall H. Lloyd968853MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454897403321Casing a promised land2201012UNINA