Ybema / Yanow / Wels Organizational Ethnography

Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4462-4818-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 242 mm

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:



- questions of gaining access to research sites within organizations;

- the many styles of writing organizational ethnography;

- the role of friendship relations in the field;

- problems of distance and closeness;

- the doing of at-home ethnography;

- ethical issues;

- standards for evaluating ethnographic work.



This book is a vital resource for organizational scholars and students doing or writing ethnography in the fields of business and management, public administration, education, health care, social work, or any related field in which organizations play a role.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ybema, Sierk

Yanow, Dvora

Wels, Harry

Kamsteeg, Frans H

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Studying Everyday Organizational Life - Sierk Ybema, Dvora Yanow, Harry Wels and Frans Kamsteeg
PART ONE: ETHNOGRAPHIC DOING AND WRITING
Getting Going: Organizing Ethnographic Fieldwork - Kees van der Waal
Ethnographic Practices: From 'Writing-up Ethnographic Research' to 'Writing Ethnography' - Michael Humphreys and Tony Watson
Reading and Writing as Method: In Search of Trustworthy Texts - Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow
When the 'Subject' and the 'Researcher' Speak Together: Co-producing Organizational Ethnography - Simon Down and Michael Hughes
PART TWO: FAMILIARITY AND 'STRANGER-NESS'
Making the Familiar Strange: A Case for Disengaged Organizational Ethnography - Sierk Ybema and Frans Kamsteeg
Zooming In & Zooming Out: A Package of Method and Theory to Study Work Practices - Davide Nicolini
From Participant Observation to Observant Participation - Brian Moeran
At-home Ethnography: Struggling with Closeness and Closure - Mats Alvesson
PART THREE: RESEARCHER-RESEARCHED RELATIONSHIPS
Lies from the Field: Ethical Issues in Organizational Ethnography - Gary Alan Fine and David Shulman
'But I Thought We Were Friends?' Life Cycles and Research Relationships - Nic Beech, Paul Hibbert, Robert MacIntosh and Peter McInnes
Critical Action Research and Organizational Ethnography - Chris Sykes and Lesley Treleaven
Beyond Complicity: A Plea for Engaged Ethnography - Halleh Ghorashi and Harry Wels
Annotated Bibliography
Defining 'Organizational Ethnography': Selection Criteria - Dvora Yanow and Karin Geuijen
Bibliography - Karin Geuijen

Über Autor(innen)

Yanow, Dvora
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.