Organizational Cultures of Remembrance : Exploring the Relationships Between Memory, Identity, and Image in an Automobile Company
معرفی کتاب «Organizational Cultures of Remembrance : Exploring the Relationships Between Memory, Identity, and Image in an Automobile Company» نوشتهٔ Daniel Mai، منتشرشده توسط نشر Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG در سال 2015. این کتاب در فرمت epub، زبان انگلیسی ارائه شده است.
Im Kontext der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedächtnisforschung widmet sich diese interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Reihe dem Verhältnis von Medien und kultureller Erinnerung. Die hier vorgestellten Studien behandeln die ganze Bandbreite der durch Medien konstruierten, tradierten und verbreiteten Erinnerung. Schrift und Bild, das Kino und die ‘neuen’ digitalen Medien, Intermedialität, Transmedialität und Remediation sowie die sozialen, zunehmend transnationalen und transkulturellen, Kontexte der mediatisierten Erinnerung gehören zu den Forschungsinteressen der Reihe. Ziel ist es, eine internationale Plattform für die interdisziplinäre Medien- und Gedächtnisforschung zu schaffen. Eingereichte Manuskripte werden im peer review Verfahren durch externe Experten begutachtet.
Den Herausgebern, Astrid Erll (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) und Ansgar Nünning (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) ist ein internationaler Beirat aus renommierten Wissenschaftlern assoziiert:
- Aleida Assmann (Universität Konstanz)
- Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam)
- Vita Fortunati (University of Bologna)
- Richard Grusin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
- Udo Hebel (Universität Regensburg)
- Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow)
- Wulf Kansteiner (Binghamton University)
- Alison Landsberg (George Mason University)
- Claus Leggewie (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen)
- Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia)
- Susannah Radstone (University of South Australia)
- Ann Rigney (Utrecht University)
- Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois)
- Werner Sollors (Harvard University)
- Frederic Tygstrup (University of Copenhagen)
- Harald Welzer (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen)
In a business world predominantly oriented toward the future, it has paradoxically become ever more common that companies turn towards their pasts. This book empirically explores the phenomenon of organizational remembrance from a holistic cultural perspective. Based on a twelve-month ethnographic case study conducted at the headquarters of the German automobile company, AUDI AG, this study dissects the relationships between memory, identity, and image in a corporate setting. The greater aim in doing so is twofold: First, this study examines exactly why and how a company officially manages its past in terms of 'history' and 'tradition.' And second, this study scrutinizes what effect organizational remembrance has on the workforce – how it impacts their collective identification with a corporate community and influences their understanding of their daily working life. By investigating the interplay between different stakeholder groups, as well as their practices, media, mental models, and other vehicles of remembrance, an integrated account is offered which makes sense of the complex cultural forces at work in the corporate handling of the past, the present, and the future. Why and how do companies remember their past in terms of history and tradition? This book empirically explores the phenomenon of organizational remembrance in the German automobile company Audi AG from a cultural perspective. By dissecting the relationships between memory, identity, and image in a business setting, this study makes sense of the complex cultural forces at work in the corporate handling of the past, the present, and the future