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EDGAR H. SCHEIN is Sloan Fellows Professor of
Management Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.?His
consulting work focuses on organizational culture, organization
development, process consultation, and career dynamics, and among
his past and current clients are major corporations both in the
U.S. and overseas such as Digital Equipment Corporation,
Ciba-Geigy, Apple, Citibank, General Foods, Procter & Gamble, ICI,
Saab Combitech, Steinbergs, Alcoa, Motorola, Hewlett-Packard,
Exxon, Shell, AMOCO, Con Edison, and the Economic Development Board
of Singapore.
Ed Schein has been a prolific researcher, writer, teacher and
consultant. Besides his numerous articles in professional journals
he has authored fourteen books. He has received many honors and
awards for his writing and is a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association and the Academy of Management.
JOHN VAN MAANEN works within the fields of
organization behavior and theory, and is an ethnographer of
organizations ranging from police departments to educational
institutions to a variety of business firms. In addition, he has
worked with numerous public and private organizations in North
America, Europe, and Asia, including BP, IBM, BMW, Siemens, the
U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Lafarge, Warburg Dillon Read, and
the National University of Technology (Singapore).
He has taught at MIT Sloan since 1972. He was the faculty chair of
the MIT Sloan Fellows Program at MIT from 1994 to 2000, and is
currently faculty chair of the Organization Studies Group. Van
Maanen has been a visiting professor at Yale University, University
of Surrey, and, most recently, at INSEAD.
Van Maanen has published a number of books and articles in the
general area of occupational and organizational sociology. Cultural
descriptions figure prominently in his studies of the work worlds
of patrol officers on city streets in the United States, police
detectives and their "guv'nors" in London, fishermen in the North
Atlantic, MBA students at MIT and Harvard Business School, and park
operatives in the Sistine Chapel of Fakery, Disneyland. He is the
author, co-author, and editor of numerous books, including
Organizational Careers (Wiley, 1977), Policing: A View from the
Street (with Peter Manning, Random House, l978), and Tales of the
Field (University of Chicago Press, l988). His most recent books
are Qualitative Studies of Organizations (Sage, 1999) and
Organizational Transformations and Information Technology (with
Joanne Yates, Sage, 2001).
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