Description: Organisational Anthropology by Christina Garsten, Anette Nyqvist A pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Organisational Anthropology is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations, focusing on the process of initiating contact, establishing rapport and gaining the trust of an organisations members.The thirteen contributors work from the premise that doing fieldwork in an organisation shares essential characteristics with fieldwork in more classical anthropological environments, but that it also poses some particular challenges to the ethnographer, with barriers including the ideological or financial interests of the organisations, protection of resources and competition between organisations.A number of organisational contexts - including corporations, EU policy arenas, think tanks and the public sector - are explored in case studies from the UK, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Mexico and the USA. Author Biography Christina Garsten is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and Chair of the Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research. She is the co-editor of Organisational Anthropology (Pluto, 2014), Ethical Dilemmas in Management Organizing (2009) and Transnational Accountability (2008) and author of Workplace Vagabonds: Career and Community in Changing Worlds of Work (2008).Anette Nyqvist is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and holds a research position at Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research. She is the co-editor of Organisational Anthropology (Pluto, 2014) and the author of Opening the Orange Envelope: Risk and Responsibility in the Remaking of Swedens National Pension System (2008). Table of Contents AcknowledgementsSeries Preface1. Entries: Engaging Organisational Worlds - Christina Garsten and Anette NyqvistPart I: Corporate Corridors2. Counter Intelligence: The Contingencies of Clerkship at the Epicentre of Convenience Culture - Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw 3. Counter-Espionage: Fieldwork among Culture Experts in Bang & Olufsen - Jakob Krause-Jensen 4. When Life Goes to Work: Authenticity and Managerial Control in the Contemporary Firm - Peter Fleming 5. Oblique Ethnography: Engaging Collaborative Complicity among Globalised Corporate Managers - Emil A. RØyrvik Part II: Policy Arenas6. Access to all Stages?: Studying through Policy in a Culture of Accessibility - Anette Nyqvist 7. Punctuated Entries: Doing Fieldwork in Policy Meetings in the European Union - Renita Thedvall 8. The Instrumental Gaze: The Case of Public Sector Reorganisation - Halvard Vike Part III: Working the Network9. All about Ties: Think Tanks and the Economy of Connections - Christina Garsten 10. Working Connections, Helping Friends: Fieldwork, Organisations and Cultural Styles - Brian Moeran 11. Messy Logic: Organisational Interactions and Joint Commitment in Railway Planning - Åsa Boholm Part IV: Opaque Worlds12. The Profane Ethnographer: Fieldwork with a Secretive Organisation - Lilith Mahmud 13. Communicative Nature of Money: Aligning Organisational Anthropology with Technocratic Experiments - Douglas R. Holmes 14. Not Being There: The Power of Strategic Absence in Organisational Anthropology - Tara A. Schwegler 15. Momentum: Pushing Ethnography Ahead - Christina Garsten and Anette Nyqvist Notes on ContributorsIndex Review This excellent and timely book shows that the anthropological gaze continues to shed light on all things human in surprising ways -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of OsloThis vital and vibrant collection is sure to appeal to graduate students in anthropology and sociology as well as those in organizational psychology. Highly Recommended. -- CHOICELively first hand accounts of carrying out ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary organisational settings - from convenience stores to high tech firms, from think tanks to advertising companies. This is a work that will appeal not only to anthropologists but also to all those with a scholarly or practical interest in culture and organisation -- John Van Maanen, Erwin Schell Professor of Organization Studies atMIT, author of Tales of the FieldThe engagement between organisation studies and anthropology is both long standing and rapidly developing. In this fascinating volume some of the leading exponents of organisational anthropology reflect on its history and future directions; its potentials and pitfalls -- Christopher Grey, Professor of Organization Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London.An indispensable summary of contemporary organisational anthropology, presenting methodological challenges, theoretical discussion and insight into what it is like to embark on research in this area -- Rachel Jane Wile, UCL Institute of Education (London) Review Quote This vital and vibrant collection is sure to appeal to graduate students in anthropology and sociology as well as those in organizational psychology. Highly Recommended. Details ISBN0745332471 Author Anette Nyqvist Language English Year 2013 ISBN-10 0745332471 ISBN-13 9780745332475 Format Hardcover Media Book Short Title ORGANISATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY Imprint Pluto Press Subtitle Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex Organisations Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Anette Nyqvist DEWEY 302.35 UK Release Date 2013-05-10 AU Release Date 2013-05-10 NZ Release Date 2013-05-10 Publisher Pluto Press Publication Date 2013-05-10 Pages 272 Series Anthropology, Culture and Society Alternative 9780745335285 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161821943;
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Book Title: Organisational Anthropology
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Organisational Anthropology: Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex Organisations
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Anthropology
Item Height: 230 mm
Item Weight: 527 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Anette Nyqvist, Christina Garsten
Subject Area: Organizational Sociology
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