Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexities of Everyday Life

✍ Scribed by Sierk Ybema (ed.), Dvora Yanow (ed.), Harry Wels (ed.), Frans Kamsteeg (ed.)

Publisher: SAGE Publications
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 304
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Organizational Ethnography brings contributions from leading scholars in organizational studies that help to develop an ethnographic perspective on organizations and organizational research. The authors explore the special problems faced by organizational ethnographers, from questions of gaining access to research sites to various styles of writing ethnography, the role of friendship relations in the field, ethical issues, and standards for evaluating ethnographic work.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
About the Contributors......Page 8
Studying everyday organizational life......Page 14
Part 1: Ethnographic Doing and Writing......Page 34
1 - Getting going: Organizing ethnographic fieldwork......Page 36
2 - Ethnographic practices: From‘writing-up ethnographic research’ to ‘writing ethnography’......Page 53
3 - Reading and writing as method: In search of trustworthy texts......Page 69
4 - When the ‘subject’ and the ‘researcher’speak together: Co-producing organizational ethnography......Page 96
Part II:Familiarity and ‘Stranger-ness’......Page 112
5 - Making the familiar strange:A case for disengaged organizational ethnography......Page 114
6 - Zooming in and zooming out: A package of method and theory to study work practices......Page 133
7 - From participant observation to observant participation......Page 152
8 - At-home ethnography: Struggling with closeness and closure......Page 169
Part III: Researcher – Researched Relationships......Page 188
9 - Lies from the field: Ethical issues in organizational ethnography......Page 190
10 - ‘But I thought we were friends?’ Lifecycles and research relationships......Page 209
11 - Critical action research and organizational ethnography......Page 228
12 - Beyond complicity: A plea for engaged ethnography......Page 244
Annotated Bibliography......Page 266
Bibliography......Page 273
Index......Page 295

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