Organisational Anthropology is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations, focusing on the process of initiating contact, establishing rapport and gaining the trust of an organisation's members. The thirteen contributors work from the premise that doing fieldwork in an organisation shares essential characteristics with fieldwork in more 'classical' anthropological environments, but that it also poses some particular challenges to the ethnographer, with barriers including the ideological or financial interests of the organisations, protection of resources and competition between organisations. A number of organisational contexts - including corporations, EU policy arenas, think tanks and the public sector - are explored in case studies from the UK, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Mexico and the USA.
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Organisational Anthropology
Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex Organisations
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Organisational Anthropology
Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex Organisations
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series preface
- 1 Entries: Engaging organisational worlds
- SECTION ONE: CORPORATE CORRIDORS
- 2 Counter intelligence: The contingencies of clerkship at the epicentre of convenience culture
- 3 Counter-espionage: Fieldwork among culture experts in Bang & Olufsen
- 4 When life goes to work: Authenticity and managerial control in the contemporary firm
- 5 Oblique ethnography: Engaging collaborative complicity among globalised corporate managers
- SECTION TWO: POLICY ARENAS
- 6 Access to all stages? Studying through policy in a culture of accessibility
- 7 Punctuated entries: Doing fieldwork in policy meetings in the European Union
- 8 The instrumental gaze: The case of public sector reorganisation
- SECTION THREE: WORKING THE NETWORK
- 9 All about ties: Think tanks and the economy of connections
- 10 Working connections, helping friends: Fieldwork, organisations and cultural styles
- 11 Messy logic: Organisational interactions and joint commitment in railway planning
- SECTION FOUR: OPAQUE WORLDS
- 12 The profane ethnographer: Fieldwork with a secretive organisation
- 13 Communicative nature of money: Aligning organisational anthropology with technocratic experiments
- 14 Not being there: The power of strategic absence in organisational anthropology
- 15 Momentum: Pushing ethnography ahead
- Notes on contributors
- Index
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