Rethinking Organizational Culture

David Collins is Professor in Management at Northumbria University, UK, and Visiting Professor in Management at the University of the Faroe Islands. His previous books include Organizational Change, Management Fads and Buzzwords, Narrating the Management Guru, Stories for Management Success, Management Gurus, and The Organizational Storytelling Workbook.

• Introduction: Rethinking Organizational CultureFoundations of Cultural StudiesThe Pre-History of Organizational CultureModels of Organizational CultureSexism, Racism and other Common Cultural PracticesRedeeming Organizational Culture: Stories and StorytellingConcluding Comments

"This is a fantastic book. It offers a timely, refreshing and insightful antidote to the popular, highly sanitized, mainstream accounts of what organizational culture is and how it works. It is written in a rigorous, incisive and humorous way. In this regard, rather than seeing Collins as purely being an academic, it is better to also at least figuratively think of him as part public intellectual, part surgeon, and part stand-up comedian."Cliff Oswick, Chair in Organization Theory, City University London, UK