All articles and chapters have been reproduced exactly as they were first published, including textual cross-references to material in the original source.

Includes bibliographical references.

Vol. I. Anthropological roots and inspirations -- Thick description: Toward an interpretive theory of culture / Clifford Geertz -- Theories of culture revisited / Roger H. Keesing -- Theory in anthropology since the sixties / Sherry B. Ortner -- Culture in action: Symbols and strategies / Ann Swidler -- Societal Culture -- Introduction: Zero-sum games, grandiosity, and illusion tricks from The triumph of emptiness / Mats Alvesson -- Motivation, leadership, and organization: Do American theories apply abroad? / Geert Hofstede -- Hofstede's model of national cultural differences and their consequences: A triumph of faith - A failure of analysis / Brendan McSweeney -- Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony / John W. Meyer and Brian Rowan -- Basic Perspectives -- Culture as a metaphor and metaphors for culture / Mats Alvesson -- Negations and ambiguities in the cultures of organization / Allen W. Batteau -- Native-view Paradigms: Multiple cultures and culture conflicts in organizations / Kathleen L. Gregory -- Cultural change: An integration of three different views / Debra Meyerson and Joanne Martin --The concept of organizational culture: Why bother? / Edgar Schein -- Concepts of culture and organizational analysis / Linda Smircich -- Vol. II. Types of Organizational Cultures -- Measuring organizational cultures: A qualitative and quantitative study across twenty cases / Geert Hofstede, Bram Heuijen, Denis Daval Ohayv and Geert Sanders -- A distributed cognition perspective on newcomers' change processes: The management of cognitive uncertainty in two investment banks / A. Alexandra Michel -- Shades of culture and institutions in international mergers / René Olie -- Markets, bureaucracies, and clans / William G. Ouchi -- Change -- Organization change as a symbolic transformation process / Per-Olof Berg -- Coerced practice implementation in cases of low cultural fit: Cultural change and practice adaptation during the implementation of Six Sigma at 3M / Anna Canato, Davide Ravasi and Nelson Phillips -- Can change in organizational culture really be managed? / Thomas H. Firzgerald -- The creation and change of organizational cultures: A conceptual framework / Pasquale Gagliardi -- Developing a market oriented culture: A critical evaluation / Lloyd C. Harris and Emmanuel Ogbonna -- Can organizational culture be managed? A synthesis / Walter R. Nord -- Leadership of or by Culture -- An institutional theory of leadership / Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Gary G. Hamilton -- Management as symbolic action: The creation and maintenance of organizational paradigms / Jeffrey Pfeffer -- Leadership: The management of meaning / Linda Smircich and Gareth Morgan -- Vol. III. Control and Resistance -- 'Being yourself' in the electronic sweatshop: New forms of normative control / Peter Fleming and Andrew Sturdy -- Culture and organization / Gideon Kunda -- Breakfast at Spiro's: Dramaturgy and dominance / Michael Rosen -- The smile factory: Work at Disneyland / John Van Maanen -- Strength is ignorance; slavery if freedom: Managing culture in modern organizations / Hugh Willmott -- Culture and Organizational Identity -- The dynamics of organizational identity / Mary Jo Hatch and Majken Schlutz -- Narratives of organizational identity and identification: A case study of hegemony and resistance / Michael Humphreys and Andrew D. Brown -- Making newsmakers: Conversational identity at work / Dan Kärreman and Mats Alvesson -- Responding to organizational identity threats: Exploring the role of organizational culture / Davide Ravasi and Majken Schultz -- Organizational Symbolism -- Corporate architecture: Turning physical settings into symbolic resources / Per Olof Berg and Kristian Kreiner -- Information in organizations as signal and symbol / Martha S. Feldman and James G. March -- The unmanaged organization: Stories, fantasies and subjectivity / Yiannis Gabriel -- Dexterity with symbols / Robert Jackall -- The uniqueness paradox in organizational stories / Joanne Martin, Martha S. Feldman, Mary Jo Hatch, and Sim B. Sitkin -- On key symbols / Sherry B. Ortner -- Vol. IV. Gender -- An organizational approach to undoing gender: The unlikely case of offshore oil platforms / Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson -- Organizational symbolism, culture and gender / Silvia Gherardi -- Serving hamburgers and selling insurance: Gender, work, and identity in interactive service jobs / Robin Leidner -- Groups and Differentiation -- 'One mirror in another': Managing diversity and the discourse of fashion / Anshuman Prasad, Pushkala Prasad and Raza Mir -- On the naming of the rose: Interests and multiple meanings as elements of organizational culture / Ed. Young -- Methods in Studying Organizational Culture -- A methodology of sorts for theorizing from empirical material / Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman -- On studying organizational culture / Andrew M. Pettigrew -- Studying organizations as cultures / Linda Smircich.