Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter : : Reflections on Research in and of Corporations /

Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter : : Reflections on Research in and of Corporations / / ed. by Melissa Cefkin.

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Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and advisors. The nature of such work, as described in this volume, raises crucial questions about potential implications to disciplines of crit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Ken,
Blomberg, Jeanette,
Brun-Cottan, Françoise,
Cefkin, Melissa,
Darrouzet, Christopher,
Fischer, Michael M. J.,
Flynn, Donna K.,
Jordan, Brigitte,
Lambert, Monique,
Nafus, Dawn,
Ortlieb, Martin,
Wild, Helga,
Wilkinson, Susann,
HerausgeberIn:
Cefkin, Melissa,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (262 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES AND TABLES
  • Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Business, Anthropology, and the Growth of Corporate Ethnography
  • ENCOUNTERS WITH CORPORATE EPISTEMOLOGIES
  • Chapter 2 “MY CUSTOMERS ARE DIFFERENT!” Identity, Difference, and the Political Economy of Design
  • DOING ANTHROPOLOGY IN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXTS
  • Chapter 3 PARTICIPATORY ETHNOGRAPHY AT WORK Practicing in the Puzzle Palaces of a Large, Complex Healthcare Organization
  • Chapter 4 WORKING IN CORPORATE JUNGLES Refl ections on Ethnographic Praxis in Industry
  • REFRACTIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL WAYS OF BEING AND KNOWING
  • Chapter 5 WRITING ON WALLS The Materiality of Social Memory in Corporate Research
  • Chapter 6 THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AS ONTOLOGICAL CHOREOGRAPHER
  • CULTURE AND CORPORATE EPISTEMOLOGIES
  • Chapter 7 EMERGENT CULTURE, SLIPPERY CULTURE Conflicting Conceptualizations of Culture in Commercial Ethnography
  • ANOTHER LOOK COMMENTARIES FROM CORPORATE RESEARCH AND THE ACADEMY
  • Chapter 8 INSIDER TRADING Engaging and Valuing Corporate Ethnography
  • Chapter 9 EMERGENT FORMS OF LIFE IN CORPORATE ARENAS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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