ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a vision of organizational ethnography in response to challenges authors met while analyzing data from a longitudinal research project of the humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders. Relationality and processuality emphasize that organizations exist through the concrete practices through which people get organized, that is, try to coordinate their activities in order to accomplish the task at hand. The chapter shows how a hauntological perspective contributes to the communicative constitution of organization (CCO) research tradition and to organizational ethnography more generally, as it suggests a reversal from doing ethnography to accepting to be ethnographed. CCO scholars, including the ones defending a ventriloquial approach, have thought their perspective as describing the way members' practices constitute their organization. A hauntological approach, by making the organization present through its materializations and by making passivity a condition of organizational action, points to a particular view of action.
