Reviews for Managing in Organizations That Learn

The average rating for Managing in Organizations That Learn based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-01-06 00:00:00 Abbas Shah In all, a very useful volume about the application of Peirce's semiotics to archaeology. The discussion of the nature of the sign and the grounds that connect it to objects and interpretants is straightforward without being as elaborate and jargon-laden as some. I was a little disappointed at the case studies, however, as they did not carry the punch I was hoping for. After laying out an interesting way of understanding the logic undergirding archaeological interpretation, Pruecel could have applied his argument much more forcefully in his discussions of the Brook Farm and post-Revolt pueblos.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-04-14 00:00:00 Cindy Montes Preucel's study is broadly structured as a historical survey of archaeology's engagement with the interpretive principles of semiotics by way of the latter's formative influence on structuralism and its subsequent critiques, with particular attention devoted to the semiotic theory formulated by Charles Sanders Pierce. While the author offers several case studies which do illustrate the inherent potential of archaeological data as abstract as settlement organization and architectural style to communicate defined ideological values, the methodological utility he seeks to demonstrate in framing these data within Pierce's modular typology of signs is not entirely convincing, though it may aid in rendering explicit certain analytical perspectives and casting into sharper relief emic/etic distinctions.