TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to take account of organizational ethnography in its historical and methodological context, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Journal of Organizational Ethnography.Design/methodology/approach– This essay brings together some current issues and concerns in one form of “marked” ethnography.Findings– This essay touches on the questions: what is organizational ethnography and why is it re‐emerging now?; and on related questions, on its way to engaging some of the key methodological issues in organizational ethnography that today merit attention.Originality/value– The paper may be of value to readers who are interested in the method and in one researcher's conceptual‐methodological take on it. VL - 1 IS - 1 SN - 2046-6749 DO - 10.1108/202466741211220633 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/202466741211220633 AU - Yanow Dvora PY - 2012 Y1 - 2012/01/01 TI - Organizational ethnography between toolbox and world‐making T2 - Journal of Organizational Ethnography PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 31 EP - 42 Y2 - 2024/04/20 ER -