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Making culture visible: reflections on corporate ethnography
Anne-Laure Fayard, John Van MaanenThe purpose of this paper is to describe and reflect on the experience as corporate ethnographers working in (and for) a large, multinational company with a remit to study and…
Narratives of enterprise revisited: methodological appendices in ethnographic books
Simon DownThis paper is the first in a series that reprints methodological appendices or methods chapters found in workplace and organisational ethnographic books, and provides an…
Impressions in action: the socially situated construction of expertise in the workplace
Aditya JohriThe impressions of others’ expertise are fundamental to workplace dynamics. Identifying expertise is essential for workplace functions such as task assignment, task completion…
Making meaning of nursing practices in acute care
Sarah Lake, Trudy Rudge, Sandra WestThe purpose of this paper is to consider how meaning may be made of nursing practices by contrasting the rationalistic approach commonly used in the nursing literature with…
The “leaning song” – a weapon in organizational conflict
Charles KirkeThe purpose of this paper is to present an insider ethnographic account of a series of social confrontations between two mutually opposed groups of officers that took place in an…
Interest plurality and institutional work: An ethnography of rural community organizing
Brett Crawford, John BranchThe institutional work literature has paid little attention to cognition and interests in the creation, maintenance, and disruption of institutions. The purpose of this paper is…
Why Kurt Wolff matters for a practice-based perspective of sensible knowledge in ethnography
Silvia GheradiThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate the contribution offered by Wolff’s sociology of knowledge to organizational ethnography and to enrich the lexicon of practice-based…
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