Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter : Reflections on Research in and of Corporations.
Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and advisors. The nature of such work, as described in this volume, raises crucial questions about potential implications to disciplines of crit...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2011
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| Series: | Studies in public and applied anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
- Ethnography and the corporate encounter; contents; figures and tables; chapter 1: introduction; encounters with corporate epistemologies; chapter 2: "my customers are different!"; doing anthropology in organizational contexts; chapter 3: participatory ethnography at work; chapter 4: working in corporate jungles; refractions of anthropological ways of being and knowing; chapter 5: writing on walls; chapter 6: the anthropologist as ontological choreographer; culture and corporate epistemologies; chapter 7: emergent culture, slippery culture.
- Another look: commentaries from corporate research and the academychapter 8: insider trading; chapter 9: emergent forms of life in corporate arenas; contributors; index.
