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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cefkin, Melissa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Series:Studies in public and applied anthropology.
Subjects:
Business anthropology.
Corporate culture.
Affaires > Aspect anthropologique.
Culture organisationnelle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Workplace Culture.
Business anthropology
Corporate culture
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ethnography and the corporate encounter; contents; figures and tables; chapter 1: introduction; encounters with corporate epistemologies; chapter 2: "my customers are different!"; doing anthropology in organizational contexts; chapter 3: participatory ethnography at work; chapter 4: working in corporate jungles; refractions of anthropological ways of being and knowing; chapter 5: writing on walls; chapter 6: the anthropologist as ontological choreographer; culture and corporate epistemologies; chapter 7: emergent culture, slippery culture.
  • Another look: commentaries from corporate research and the academychapter 8: insider trading; chapter 9: emergent forms of life in corporate arenas; contributors; index.

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