Forthcoming Book:
Artifacts and Organizations
(Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers - 2004)

Overview

• INTRODUCTION

  • Anat Rafaeli (Technion, Israel)
  • Michael Pratt (University of Illinois)

• KNOWING ARTIFACTS

  • Managing Organizational Artifacts to Avoid Artifact Myopia
    • Iris Vilnai-Yavetz (Technion, Israel)
    • Anat Rafaeli (Technion, Israel)
    
    
  • Organizational Artifacts and the Aesthetic Approach
    • Antonio Strati (Trento Italy)
    
    
  • Studying Physical Artifacts: An Interpretive Approach
    • Dvora Yanow (California State University, Hayward)
    
    
  • Mis-Interpretation of Physical Identity Markers: Relating Physical Artifacts to Perceptual Biases
    • Kim Elsbach (UC Davis)

• KNOWING AND TRANFERING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH ARTIFACTS

  • Office Door Cartoon Display: The Autoproduction of Visual Humor in Organizations.
    • N. Anand (London Business School)
    
    
  • Interpreting and Negotiating Knowledge across Domains through Artifacts.
    • Paul Carlile (MIT)
    
    
  • "The Role of Linguistic Artifacts in Organizing Managing.
    • John Shotter (University of New Hampshire)
    • Ann Cunliffe (California State University – Hayward

• IDENTIFYING AND BRANDING THROUGH ARTIFACTS

  • How Brands Live in Symbols and Artifacts.
    • Majken Schultz (Copenhagen Business School)
    • Mary Jo Hatch (University of Virginia)
    • Francesko Cicolla (The Lego Company)
    
    
  • Employees as Animate Artifacts: Employee Branding by "Wearing the Brand."
    • CV Harquail (University of Virginia)
    
    
  • Implicit and explicit utilization of symbolic artifacts: Logos of UK Universities
    • Yehuda Baruch (University of East Anglia, UK)
      
      
    
    
  • Artifacts in Image, Identity, and Sensemaking in the Fashion Industry.
    • Rossella Cappetta (Bocconi University, Milan)
    • Denny Gioia (Penn State)

• IDENTIFYING AND LEGITIMAZING THROUGH ARTIFACTS

  • Fred's Bank: How Institutional Norms and Individual Preferences Legitimate Organizational Names.
    • Mary Ann Glynn (Emory University)
    • Christopher Marquis (University of Michigan).
    
    
  • Stuff Matters: Artifacts, Social identity and Legitimacy in the U.S. Medical Profession.
    • Marlene Fiol and Ed O'Connor (University of Colorado, Denver)
    
    
  • Articulation Work and the Institutional Elements of Organizational Artifacts: The Case of Contracts and Contracting
    • William N. Kaghan
    • Michael Lounsbury (Cornell University)
      
      

• SUMMARY