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Working Misunderstandings : An Ethnography of Project Collaboration in a Multinational Corporation in India /

Misunderstandings are often perceived as something to be avoided yet delineate an integrative part of everyday work. This book addresses the role that misunderstandings play in collaborative work and, above all, their effects on the organisational result. As exemplified by project collaboration acro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mörike, Frauke (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2021]
Colección:Arbeit und Organisation ; 5
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- 1. Introduction, or: From IT Projects to Organisational Ethnography -- 1.1. "You should be able to resolve this, right?" -- 1.2. Office fieldwork in India -- 1.3. Misunderstandings as a research subject -- 1.4. Organisational ethnography and its limits -- 1.5. Client centricity and ground reality as opposing values -- 1.6. Chapter outline -- 2. Anthropology, Organisational Systems and Misunderstandings -- 2.1. Complex organisations as a field of inquiry -- 2.2. From organisational culture to social systems -- 2.3. The organisation as a social system 
505 8 |a 2.4. Conceptualising misunderstanding -- 2.5. Ethnography as a communication process -- 3. Fieldwork in Corporate Offices -- 3.1. Office ethnography: Access and the role of the researcher -- 3.2. The fieldwork setting: In and around Advice Company -- 3.3. Methods: Classics with a twist -- 3.4. Concluding remarks on fieldwork in corporate offices -- Part I: The Organisation as a Social System -- 4. System/Environment Boundaries -- 4.1. Passing gates: Access procedures -- 4.2. Differentiated environment: Clients, freelancers, universities, contractors -- 4.3. Organisational membership 
505 8 |a 4.4. Concluding remarks: Operative closure and openness to the environment -- 5. Internal Differentiation: The Offices -- 5.1. Increasing differentiation to reduce complexity -- 5.2. Access procedures: From elaborate to basic -- 5.3. Inside the offices: Differences in space and equipment -- 5.4. Atmospheres as "tempered spaces": Office perceptions -- 5.5. Concluding remarks: Client centricity as a continuum -- 6. Formal Boundaries, Informal Bridges: Departments and Teams -- 6.1. Differentiating function and hierarchy: Job types and teams 
505 8 |a 6.2. Lunchmates and batchmates: Informal bridges across the office -- 6.3. Concluding remarks on the organisational system -- Part II: Working Misunderstandings -- 7. Working Misunderstandings -- 7.1. Working misunderstandings and ethnographic insight -- 7.2. Working misunderstandings as an analytical category -- 7.3. The client project as a service commodity -- 8. Collaboration as a Working Misunderstanding -- 8.1. Discovering "collaboration" -- 8.2. From a non-intentional to an intentional working misunderstanding -- 8.3. Working (with) a misunderstanding 
505 8 |a 8.4. Concluding remarks on collaboration as a working misunderstanding -- 9. Modus intentional: Date games -- 9.1. Double contingency and cross-system interaction -- 9.2. Date games and working misunderstandings -- 9.3. Date games reversed: Status reports and escalation -- 9.4. Date games across system boundaries, and their limits -- 9.5. Concluding remarks on intentional working misunderstandings -- 10. Modus Non-Intentional: Project Representations -- 10.1. Organisational decision-making and "black boxes" -- 10.2. Lead management: Translating uncertainty 
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