| The contemporary study of organizational culture reflects mainline concerns of the organizational sociologists. Though anthropology and cognitive psychology have made significant contributions to this new field, the study of organizational culture may be seen as a return to some of the most basic concerns about the nature of organizations and the appropriate methods for analyzing them. We review current work on theory, empirical studies, and contributions – both theoretical and empirical – to the understanding of planned change of organizations. The contemporary study of organizational structure reflects several hotly contested concerns, among which are following: Can culture be intentionally managed? Must culture be studied using the tools of the phenomenologist or the ethnographer, or does the use of multivariate statistics also have a place? Which social science paradigm is most appropriate for understanding organizational culture: phenomenology, symbolic interaction, semiotics, structural functional anthropology, cognitive psychology? |