INTERVIEWS & MISCELLANY:

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Culture Logics Principal David White on corporate culture myths

 

READINGS

 

Top 5 Reads that reframe popular misconceptions of corporate culture:

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1. Kronenfeld, D. (2018). Culture as system: How we know the meaning and significance of what we do and say. Abingdon: Routledge.

2. Strauss, C., & Quinn, N. (1997). A cognitive theory of cultural meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

3. Harris, S. (1994). Organizational culture and individual sensemaking: A schema-based perspective. Organization Science, 1, 309–321.

4. Descola, P. (2013). Beyond nature and culture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

5. Schein, E. (1992). Organizational culture and leadership (2nd Edition). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
    

And because we can't keep to 5...
 

1. Martin, J., & Frost, P. (2011). The organizational culture war games: A struggle for intellectual dominance. In: M. Godwin, & J. Hoffer Gittell (Eds.), Sociology of organizations: Structures and relationships (pp. 559–621). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Retrieved from: http://scholar.google.com/.

2. White, D. G. (2020). Disrupting Corporate Culture: How Cognitive Science Alters Accepted Beliefs about Culture and Culture Change and Its Impact on Leaders and Change Agents. New York, NY: Routledge, CRC Press.

3. Leonardi, P. (2011). Innovation blindness: Culture, frames and cross-boundary problem construction in the development of new technology concepts. Organization Science, 22, 347–369.

4. White, D. G. (2017). Rethinking culture: Embodied cognition and the origin of culture in organizations, vol. 17. New York, NY: Routledge.

5. Chatman, J., & Jehn, K. (1994). Assessing the relationship between industry characteristics and organizational culture: How different can you be? Academy of Management Journal, 37, 522–553. Retrieved from: http://scholar.google.com/.

6. Bennardo, G., & De Munck, V. C. (2014). Cultural models: Genesis, methods, and experiences. Oxford University Press.

7. Levinson, S. C. (2006). Introduction: The evolution of culture in a microcosm. In: S.Levinson, & P. Jaisson (Eds.), Evolution and culture: A Fyssen Foundation symposium (pp. 1–41). Cambridge: MIT Press.

8. Quinn, N. (2011). The history of the cultural models school reconsidered: A paradigm shift in cognitive anthropology. In: D. Kronenfeld, G. Bennardo, V. de Munck, & M. Fischer (Eds.), A companion to cognitive anthropology (pp. 30–46). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

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Top 7 Reads on Change and Change Leadership:

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1. Centola, D. (2018). The truth about behavioral change. Sloan Management Review. Retrieved from: https://mitsmr.com/2Owt7rS.

2. Heifetz, R., Grashow, A., & Linsky, M. (2009). The practice of adaptive leadership: Tools,tactics for changing your organization and the world. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press.

3. Ogbonna, E., & Wilkinson, B. (2003). The false promise of organizational culture change: A case study of middle managers in grocery retailing. Journal of Management Studies, 40(5), 1151–1178.

4. Pfeffer, J. (2015). Leadership BS: Fixing workplaces and careers one truth at a time. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

5. Steele, F. I. (1972). Organizational Overlearning. Journal of Management Studies, 9(3), 303–313.

6. White, D.G. (2022). Why Digital is So Hard for Industrials: https://theculturalmind.medium.com/why-is-digital-so-hard-for-industrials-55165477492a

7. White, D.G. (2022). Empowerment is not Culture Change: https://medium.com/p/d8dd92f4ba27 

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Top Reads on On Epistemic Problems Studying Culture and Change:

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1. Beuckelaer, A., Lievens, F., & Swinnen, G. (2007). Measurement equivalence in the conduct of a global organizational survey across countries in six cultural regions. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 80(4), 575–600.

2. Fleck, L. (1979). Genesis and development of a scientific fact  (Fred Bradley and ThaddeusTrenn, Trans.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1935).

3. Knorr-Cetina, K. (1999). Epistemic cultures: How the sciences make knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

4. Ormerod, P. (2005). Why most things fail: Evolution, extinction, and economics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley Sons.

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Top Reads on Embodied Cognition and Related Topics in Cognitive Science:
 

1. Wehrs, D., Nalbantian, S., & Tucker, D. (Eds), (2023). Cultural memory: From the sciences to the humanities. New York: Routledge

2. Boroditsky, L., & Ramscar, M. (2002). The roles of body and mind in abstract thought. Psychological Science, 13(2), 185–189.

3. de Bruin, L. C., & K.stner, L. (2012). Dynamic embodied cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 11(4), 541–563.

4. Dunbar, R. I. M. (2018). Network structure and social complexity in primates. BioRxiv, 354068.Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1101/354068.

5. Gallagher, S. (2005). How the body shapes the mind. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

6. Hutchins, E. (1995). Cognition in the wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

7. Johnson, M. (1987). The body in the mind. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

8. Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980. Reprinted 2003). Metaphors we live by. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

9. Reber, A. S. (1989). Implicit learning and tacit knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 118(3), 219.

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