Author: Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, Walter R. Nord, J. Martin, P. Frost.

[reviews organizational culture research,] portraying research in this domain as a struggle for intellectual dominance among the proponents of various theories, methodological preferences, epistemologies, and political orientations / use a metaphor to structure [the] description of this struggle for dominance: the organizatinal culture 'war games,' or, more specifically, a game of 'king of the mountain' / reviews organizational culture research as if this field began, without history, in approximately 1970 / cite some intellectual predecessors of particular points of view, but less as contributors of the history of an idea and more as totems invoked to legitimate certain points of view, drawing attention to the exclusion of other viewpoints with equally venerable intellectual lineage (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)