Hi all,
Here is a list of literature, also used for discussing organsational themes.
Somebody had asked me for it and I thought some of you might like to have it
too. Any additions?
'J.R.' by William Gaddis -> homo economicus
'Nice Work' by David Lodge -> overcomming differences in corporate culture
'Bartleby the scrivener: a story of wall street' by Herman Melville
-> deviant figures/strategies in organisations
'Rabbit is rich' by John Updike -> an individual breaks away from the group
-> individual identy <-> group identity
'The man in the grey flannel suit' by Sloan Wilson
'death of a salesman' by Arthur Miller
'Point of no return' by John P. Marquand
-> the will to believe the corporate gospel
'Something happened' by Joseph Heller
'Major Barbara' by George Bernard Shaw
-> Darwin in business
'The Financier' by Theodore Dreiser
'Babitt' by Sinclair Lewis
the short story 'The big money' from the book 'USA' by John Dos Passos
'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair
'A Connecticut yankee in Kings Arthur's court' by Mark Twain
-> chaos, office politics & stress management:
'Office politics' van auteur Wilfred Sheed
'The catbird seat' van auteur James Thurber
'Typhoon' van auteur Joseph Conrad
-> advantages of dictatorship
'The last tycoon' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
-> selling as theatre
'Sister Carrie' by Theodore Dreiser
'Glengary Glen Ross' by David Mamet
-> imago and reputation:
'Ragged Dick' by Horatio Alger
'The Cantebury tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer
'The way we live now' by Anthony Trollope
CU,
Teike
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