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Artifacts and Organizations: Understanding Our “Objective” Reality
A man's Self is the sum total of all he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and yacht.
—William James (1890, p. 177)
It should be clear at this point that organizational life is infused with artifacts and that people understand themselves, their organizations, and their institutions through artifacts. However, their ubiquity leads to two paths in the treatment of artifacts. First, artifacts have been assigned to the realm “ordinary”—and by implication, the realm of the uninteresting or superficial. Second, ...
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