Man-made objects are an expression of both the social organisation in which
they were produced and the communicative context in which they appear
and are used. In this respect, they represent easily accessible material, which
is highly suitable for and useful in reconstructing the social structures in organisations
and opening up latent structures of meaning for analysis. Nevertheless
the analysis of physical materials has tended to live a shadow existence.
This paper presents a hermeneutic method of analysing artefacts in organisations.
The basic concept centres on the reconstructing of the processes of
meaning and organising in social systems. After providing a brief introduction
to the methodological principles, the paper goes on to discuss this
method in greater detail. Concrete examples of the study of specific materials
in an organisational analysis context are used to ground the interpretation
of artefacts in the overall organisational analysis context. The paper closes
with a discussion of the possibilities and limitations of this kind of analysis. (authors' abstract) / Series: ["p_series_typename_S48" not defined]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:5113 |
| Date | 07 1900 |
| Creators | Froschauer, Ulrike, Lueger, Manfred |
| Publisher | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Paper, NonPeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Relation | http://wu.ac.at/methods, http://epub.wu.ac.at/5113/ |
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