From money storage to money store: Openness and transparency in bank architecture

Frandsen, Ann‐Christine; Hiller, Tammy Bunn; Traflet, Janice; McGoun, Elton G.

doi:10.1080/00076791.2012.715282

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“…This comes close to a semantic approach to architecture that views buildings as a form of spatial language that can be deciphered like any other form of speech, and is perhaps better exemplified by the work of (Yanow (1995); Yanow (1998)), as well as van Marrewijk and Yanow (2010), Panayiotou and Kafiris (2011) and Frandsen, Hiller, Traflet, & McGoun (2013).…”

Section: Collective Memory and Organizational Spacementioning

confidence: 71%

“…While Burrell and Dale’s extensive work on organizational architecture does justice to its complexities, they occasionally oversimplify architectural meaning as zeitgeist : ‘Architecture tells us about the ideas of a particular time and space, expressed materially’ (Dale and Burrell, 2008: 26). This comes close to a semantic approach to architecture that views buildings as a form of spatial language that can be deciphered like any other form of speech and is perhaps better exemplified by the work of Yanow (1995, 1998), as well as Van Marrewijk and Yanow (2010), Panayiotou and Kafiris (2011) and Frandsen et al (2013).…”

Section: Collective Memory and Organizational Spacementioning

confidence: 79%

“…Collective memory was being reshaped around the symbolic ‘new beginning’ of independence, a watershed that separated the traditional, colonial past from the vision of a progressive and thoroughly modern state. The past as well as the future were narratively constructed, but in these semi-literate societies, the symbolic significance of modernist architecture that very visibly demonstrated that ‘something was different’ (Frandsen et al, n.d. : 35) cannot be overestimated.…”

Section: Collective Memory and Organizational Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

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Solid intentions: An archival ethnography of corporate architecture and organizational remembering

Decker

2014

Organization

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Research on organizational spaces has not considered the importance of collective memory for the process of investing meaning in corporate architecture. Employing an archival ethnography approach, practices of organizational remembering emerge as a way to shape the meanings associated with architectural designs. While the role of monuments and museums are well established in studies of collective memory, this research extends the concept of spatiality to the practices of organizational remembering that focus on a wider selection of corporate architecture. By analyzing the historical shift from colonial to modernist architecture for banks and retailers in Ghana and Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s on the basis of documents and photographs from three different companies, this article shows how archival sources can be used to untangle the ways in which companies seek to ascribe meaning to their architectural output. Buildings allude to the past and the future in a range of complex ways that can be interpreted more fully by reference to the archival sources and the historical context of their creation. Social remembering has the potential to explain why and how buildings have meaning, while archival ethnography offers a new research approach to investigate changing organizational practices.

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Section: Collective Memory and Organizational Spacementioning

confidence: 71%

Section: Collective Memory and Organizational Spacementioning

confidence: 79%

Section: Collective Memory and Organizational Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

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Solid intentions: An archival ethnography of corporate architecture and organizational remembering

Decker

2014

Organization

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“…Studies of the origin of office workplaces are rare (McKinstry 1997;Leslie 2011;Frandsen et al 2012). They primarily provide insights about the link between spatial reorganisation and the Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 18:05 04 January 2015…”

Section: Accounting Clerks' Social Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Grounded in the earlier work of MacDonald (1989), several authors have shown how architecture is symbolic of power. This symbolism can be seen in head offices (Leslie 2011), the architecture of banks (Frandsen et al 2012) and that of accounting professional organisations (McKinstry 1997). In addition to work premises, Edwards and Walker (2010) have demonstrated how the private residences of accountants contributed to the construction of a professional identity and reputation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

The spatial downgrading of accounting clerks: the case of Pont-à-Mousson

Labardin

2014

Accounting History Review

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Research into accountancy has concentrated largely on professional accountants and has tended to ignore accounting clerks. Based on a micro-historical approach and the case of a French company as a starting point, this study explores the evolution of workspace and demonstrates how the space allocated to accountants changed during the inter-war period. We adopt Bourdieu's notion of social space to bring together spatial practices and overhead cost calculations, and Foucault's analysis of space to define office space mobility. This work sheds light on the influence of Taylorism on the accounting world, how it affected accounting clerks and, finally, the social downgrading that resulted from the reconfiguration of workspaces. This research contributes to the history of the workspace and to the history of the separation between accounting clerks and chartered accountants.

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