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Frontmatter – Introduction – Artifacts as Pathways and Remains of Organizational Life – Part I: Designing Physical Settings in Organizations – Corporate Architecture: Turning Physical Settings into Symbolic Resources – Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts – Housing Modifications as Organizational Communication – Meaning of the Workplace: Using Ideas of Ritual Space in Design – The Symbolics of Office Design: An Empirical Exploration – Designing Dynamic Artifacts: Computer Systems as Formative Contexts – Part II: Disclosing Organizational Cultures Through Artifacts – Colors, Artifacts, and Ideologies – Photograph Analysis: A Method to Capture Organizational Belief Systems – Curing the Monster: Some Images of and Considerations About the Dragon – The Symbolic Value of Computerized Information Systems – Car Makers and Marathon Runners: In Pursuit of Culture Through the Language of Leadership – Part III: Root Metaphors Embedded in Artifacts – The C.E.O. as Corporate Myth-Maker: Negotiating the Boundaries of Work and Play at Domino’s Pizza Company – Artifacts in a Bureaucratic Monastery – The Symbol of the Space Shuttle and the Degeneration of the American Dream – Part IV: Artifacts and Organizational Control – The Aesthetic Imperative of a Rational-Technical Machinery: A Study in Organizational Control Through the Design of Artifacts – Linguistic Artifacts at Service of Organizational Control – Failed Artifacts – Part V: De-Constructing Artifacts – Theory as Artefact: Artefact as Theory – The Authors – Backmatter