Journal of Organizational Ethnography: Volume 12 Issue 1

“Too quality”! Professional boundary setting and the ISO 56000 standard on innovation management. In honor of Dorothy E. Smith (1926–2022)

Maria Duclos Lindstrøm

The purpose of the paper is to pay homage to Dorothy E. Smith (1926–2022), and her lifelong significance for organizational ethnography. Building on Smith, the empirical purpose…

Braided identities in acute care nurses' practices of work: professional, clinician, employee

Sarah Lake, Trudy Rudge, Sandra West

This paper aims to explore how dispositions of nursing habitus carry shift handover into practice in acute care.

Suffering, recovery and participant experience in a video game development accelerator

Devon Gidley, Mark Palmer, Amani Gharib

The authors aimed to explore how involvement in a creative development accelerator impacted participants. In particular, the authors considered the role of suffering in the…

White, Brown, mad, fat, male and female academics: a duoethnography challenging our experiences of deficit identities

Joanna Fox, Jas Sangha

The authors are two social work academics working in a UK Higher Education Institute. Social work is underpinned by principles of anti-oppressive practice which leads to challenge…

Introducing “navigating failure in ethnography”: a forum about failure in ethnographic research

Rafael Verbuyst, Anna Milena Galazka

The authors introduce a recurrent section for the Journal of Organizational Ethnography which scrutinizes the various manifestations and roles of failure in ethnographic research.

Problematising access: reflections on ethnography in a bureaucratic organisation

Nikkie Buskermolen

The article aims to explore the methodological implications of gaining access into a bureaucratic organisation for an ethnographic research project. It broadens the understanding…

Studying trust in the leader by co-produced autoethnography: an organizational esthetics approach

Päivi Kosonen, Mirjami Ikonen

This paper aims at examining the prospects and possibilities of autoethnography in trust research. The focus of this study is on trust-building in a management team from an…

Governing anticipation: UNESCO making humankind futures literate

Ulrik Jennische, Adrienne Sörbom

This paper explores practices of foresight within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program Futures Literacy, as a form of…

Choose, buy, pay – Paradoxes of shame-relieving processes among impoverished Spaniards after 2008’s great recession

Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, Jose Luis Molina

The aim of the paper is to ethnographically detail the poverty-shame nexus in contemporary Spain, and to highlight the contradictions of the newly adopted consumption-based models…