Gideon Kunda: 2 books

Book cover of Engineering Culture

Engineering Culture

Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation

by Gideon Kunda
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009

Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book—which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew—has been revised to bring it up to date. In Engineering Culture, Gideon Kunda offers...
Book cover of Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies

Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies

Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy

by Gideon Kunda, Stephen R. Barley
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011

Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility. Although commentators have focused largely on low-wage temporary work, the use of skilled contractors has also grown...
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