ABSTRACT

Interest in anthropology and ethnography has been an ongoing feature of organizational research and pedagogy; this book provides a key reference text that pulls together the different ways in which anthropology infuses the study of organizations, both epistemologically and methodologically.

The volume hosts key scholars and experts within the fields of Organizational Anthropology, Organizational Ethnography, Organizational Studies and Qualitative Research.

The book provides a combination of methodological guidelines, exemplars and epistemological reflection. It includes methodological viewpoints, ethnographic journeys within organizations as well as beyond organizations, and individual reflections on challenges faced by organizational ethnographers.

This book is aimed at PhD, master and advanced undergraduate students and researchers across disciplines, especially those who are engaged with general management, organizational behaviour, strategy and anthropological/ethnographic issues.

chapter 1|13 pages

Anthropology and Organizational Studies

A Symbiotic Connection

part I|157 pages

Methodological Viewpoints

chapter 2|17 pages

Archival Ethnography

chapter 3|30 pages

A History of Markets Past

The Role of Institutional Memory Failure in Financial Crises

chapter 5|21 pages

Frames of the Field

Ethnography as Photography

chapter 6|17 pages

Ethnography, Air-Conditioned

chapter 7|14 pages

Consumer Culture Theory

An Anthropological Contribution to Consumption Studies

chapter 9|17 pages

Contextual Analytics

Using Human Science to Strengthen Data Science Approaches in the Development of Algorithms

part II|144 pages

Ethnographic Journeys

chapter 11|20 pages

How Do I Like Being a Policewoman? I'm Very Happy!

Pakistani Policewomen and the Challenge of Presentational Data

chapter 13|26 pages

Exploring the Accomplishment of Inter-organizational Collaboration

The Value of Thick Descriptions

chapter 14|20 pages

Managerial Work with Digitalization

A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Approach to Data and Data-Driven Management in Practice

chapter 15|17 pages

Still a Man's World

Finding Gender Issues in Tokyo Fashion Week

chapter 16|21 pages

What Makes Resilience?

An Ethnographic Study of the Work of Prison Officers

part III|133 pages

Beyond Organizations

chapter 17|19 pages

Organisational Dilemmas, Gender and Ethnicity

A Video Ethnographic Approach to Talk and Gestures in Homeless Shelter Consultations

chapter 18|20 pages

Capturing the Microfoundations of Institutions

A Confessional Tale of the Glorified Field

chapter 20|16 pages

Tweeting the Marginalized Voices

A Netnographic Account

chapter 21|20 pages

What Are We Missing?

Exploring Ethnographic Possibilities beyond MOS Conventions

chapter 23|17 pages

Crisis Ethnography

Emotions and Identity in Fieldwork during the Tunisian Revolution

part IV|63 pages

Reflections

chapter 25|19 pages

Ethnography and the Traffic in Pain

chapter 26|9 pages

Fieldwork in Work Worlds

chapter 27|13 pages

Withdrawal Pains and Gains

Exiting from the Field 1