Beyond a single organization: challenges and opportunities in doing field...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to offer a road map for carrying out field-level ethnography, focussing on the inter-organizational space collectively constructed and shared by...
View ArticleThe “Green Mile”: crystallization ethnography in an emotive context
AbstractPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss emotions within a highly emotive organizational setting through the use of crystallization. The authors contend that the expression of a...
View Article(Re)Locating boundaries: a systematic review of online ethnography
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to systematically review online ethnography and its boundary challenges. The paper especially focusses on how researchers draw space boundaries, set time...
View ArticleMulti-event ethnography: doing research in pluralistic settings
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to overcome the challenges of doing research in pluralistic settings by performing multi-event ethnographies. The proposal redirects the efforts of...
View ArticleResearching spatial practices through Commentated Walks: “on the move” and...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore how the combination of a qualitative shadowing method called “Commentated Walk” and an ethnographic approach, can be used to analyze the spatial...
View ArticleCharting new territory for organizational ethnography: Insights from a...
AbstractPurpose– Increasing complexity, fragmentation, mobility, pace, and technological intermediation of organizational life make “being there” increasingly difficult. Where do ethnographers have to...
View ArticleFrom the ethnographic turn to new forms of organizational ethnography
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to outline the context and the content of the six papers that follow in this special issue on “New Forms of Organizational Ethnography”....
View ArticleImprovising theory: process and temporality in ethnographic fieldwork
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View ArticleThe organizing practices of a community festival
AbstractPurpose - This paper presents part of a research study, undertaken over three years, in which the author observed the organization of an annual, community-based, arts and crafts festival in...
View ArticleWhat a performance! the influence of call centre workflows on workers’ skills...
AbstractPurpose - This article uses the concepts of performance and emotional labour to shed new light on the skills workers use on two workflows in one call centre. In addition, the paper demonstrates...
View Article‘I don’t know why I’m here’: from knot-working to not-knowing
AbstractPurpose - This paper examines the idea of getting lost during field studies as a point of departure for reframing the initial research question. Design/methodology/approach - The paper presents...
View ArticleDecision-making as performative struggle: strategic political-executive...
AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of performative struggle through the use of an interpretative case story focused on a strategic decision-making process...
View Article‘Being with’ while retaining and asserting professional midwifery power and...
AbstractPurpose - To describe what it is like to be a midwife in the professionally isolated and marginalised arena of home birth in Ireland. To explore whether the organisation of home birth services...
View ArticleStranger and stranger: creating theory through ethnographic distance and...
AbstractPurpose - Classical ethnographic research begins with the recognition that the observer starts as a stranger to the group being studied, a recognition as evident in the analysis of formal...
View ArticleResistance to financialization – insights about collective resistance through...
AbstractPurpose - Contribute with knowledge about how resistance to the neo-liberal agenda is made possible, especially through renewal and reproduction of collective communities....
View ArticleCutting dark matter. professional capacity and organizational change
AbstractPurpose - The author discusses the impact of organizational change on the competence of controllers in rail infrastructure operations. Controllers are a critical link in providing rail...
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