Journal of Organizational Ethnography: Volume 5 Issue 2

Constructing a postcolonial feminist ethnography

Jennifer Manning

The paper details the construction of a postcolonial feminist approach to ethnography; providing insight into how the researcher developed her ethnographic approach based on her…

Labour arbitrage: the lifecycle of a global production node

Milosz Miszczynski

The purpose of this paper is to address the geographic mobility of organisations by focusing on an instance of a rural community hosting a mobile phone plant in Romania. The paper…

Rubbing out gender: women and merchant ships

Iris Lavalle Acejo, Sanley S. Abila

The purpose of this paper is to show how gender differences are rubbed out and simultaneously reinforced in intentional and unintentional ways. It will do this by exploring the…

Autoethnography of digital fiction in Japan: a case study

Rebagliati Gabriele

The purpose of this paper is to show how autoethnography applied to digital fiction can give us deep insights into collaborative writing through a case study of a Japanese mobile…

Everyday interaction at the front-line: The case of the Norwegian all-in-one bureaucracy

Kjetil G. Lundberg, Liv Johanne Syltevik

– The purpose of this paper is to provide a sociological analysis of everyday interaction on the physical front line of the Norwegian welfare state.

Intricacies of back-office: Forward- and backward-looking recipes as modelling tools in administration

Sari Yli-Kauhaluoma, Mika Pantzar

– The purpose of this paper is to examine how back-office service staff cope with the intricacies of administrative work.

Management through hope: an ethnography of Denmark’s Renewable Energy Island

Irina Papazu

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the process of social and technical change that took place between 1997 and 2007 through which Samsø, a rural island of 4,000 inhabitants…