ABSTRACT

In this chapters, the author highlights numerous texts with which his familiar from autoethnography, organizational communication, narrative inquiry, organizational studies, critical management, sociology, memoir, human relations, autobiography, discourse analysis, information technology, gender studies, anthropology, public relations, and many more. Chris Hackley suggests organizational autoethnography might be one way by which dominant discourses might be challenged. Writing and evaluating organizational autoethnography takes us through the doing of the writing of autoethnography, and how reader might evaluate organizational autoethnographic works. Organizing the futures of organizational autoethnography presents a number of rich possibilities for how we might attend to examining organizing and organizations through an autoethnographic lens going forward. Brian Johnston explores the processes of doing documentary as qualitative research and using documentary as a method by which to build community. Finally, the author realizes reader needed a sustained interdisciplinary international look at organizational autoethnography.