The manager as anthropologist
By: Davis Dyer, Alan M. Kantrow
Contributors: Kantrow, Alan M., 1947-; Harvard Business School. Division of Research
Series: Working paper / Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University -- 80-28; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 80-28
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Description: In this paper we intend: 1) to examine some of the most familiar definitions of organizational culture in order to see why they prove inadequate; 2) to show how their inadequacy seriously misleads managers; 3) to offer a substantially different approach to the notion of culture based on recent advances in the field of anthropology; and 4) to illustrate at some length the usefulness to managers of this latter approach.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.