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Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life
D (Ed)Et Al Yanow
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Description for Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life
Paperback. Organizational Ethnography brings contributions from leading scholars in organizational studies that help to develop an ethnographic perspective on organizations and organizational research. Editor(s): Yanow, Dvora; Ybema, Sierk; Kamsteeg, Frans H.; Wels, Harry. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHMP; KJU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 172 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
Just as newspapers do not, typically, engage with the ordinary experiences of people′s daily lives, so organizational studies has also tended largely to ignore the humdrum, everyday experiences of people working in organizations. However, ethnographic approaches provide in-depth and up-close understandings of how the ′everyday-ness′ of work is organized and how, in turn, work itself organizes people and the societies they inhabit.
Just as newspapers do not, typically, engage with the ordinary experiences of people′s daily lives, so organizational studies has also tended largely to ignore the humdrum, everyday experiences of people working in organizations. However, ethnographic approaches provide in-depth and up-close understandings of how the ′everyday-ness′ of work is organized and how, in turn, work itself organizes people and the societies they inhabit.
Organizational Ethnography brings contributions from leading scholars in organizational studies that serve to unpack an ethnographic perspective on organizations and organizational research. The authors explore the particular problems faced by organizational ethnographers, including:
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Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847870469
SKU
V9781847870469
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About D (Ed)Et Al Yanow
Dvora Yanow is a political ethnographer and interpretive methodologist. Her research explores state-created categories for immigrant and race-ethnic identities, workplace practices and organizational learning, and built spaces and meaning.
Reviews for Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life
This timely collection constitutes essential reading for all organizational ethnographers interested in the ways in which their discipline is developing. Although it will primarily be used for reference on the basis of individual chapters, this is a well crafted text which maintains a strong narrative throughout Organization Journal Whether one′s background is in ... Read more