Inside Organizations

Synopsis of Inside Organizations

Inside Organizations is an ethnographic study that examines organizations as human phenomena, unifying the idea that organizing is a fundamental human enterprise that is social, symbolic, and aesthetic, as well as technological and utilitarian. It draws upon symbolic interactionism from sociology, the notion of culture from anthropology, and the stories and rituals of folklore and mythology. The contributors to Inside Organizations discuss a variety of organizational settings in which they either participated or studied.