TY - JOUR
T1 - Book Review: Engineering culture: control and commitment in a high-tech corporation
AU - Scott, Peter
PY - 1992/11
Y1 - 1992/11
N2 - Corporate 'culture' - a way of harmonising organisational goals with the aspirations of individual employees, a sinister form of mind control, or just vacuous and pious waffle that forms the current fad of management consultants and similar-minded prophets? This book engages such issues through a detailed ethnographic study of the mechanisms by which corporate goals are implanted in professionals employed by an unnamed American high-tech corporation famed for its strong organisational culture. By Gideon Kunda, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, 297 pp.
AB - Corporate 'culture' - a way of harmonising organisational goals with the aspirations of individual employees, a sinister form of mind control, or just vacuous and pious waffle that forms the current fad of management consultants and similar-minded prophets? This book engages such issues through a detailed ethnographic study of the mechanisms by which corporate goals are implanted in professionals employed by an unnamed American high-tech corporation famed for its strong organisational culture. By Gideon Kunda, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992, 297 pp.
U2 - 10.1177/0038038592026004017
DO - 10.1177/0038038592026004017
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
SN - 0038-0385
VL - 26
SP - 715
EP - 716
JO - Sociology
JF - Sociology
IS - 4
ER -