Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society: Doing Organizational Ethnography 38 (2016, Hardcover) download ebook DOC, PDF
9781138935594 113893559X In the past five years a new organizational studies research field has developed involving organizational ethnographies, which is when organizations are studied using ethnographical methods. This development has shed light on the difficulties of organizational ethnography and yet we argue that confusion remains as to what organizational ethnographical approaches are. " Organizational Ethnography" presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on the concept of what the word organizational means in organizational ethnography. We define organizational as polyphonic ways of organizing based on the interactions and co-production of the many voices, discourses, practices and narratives in and around organizations, thus providing readers with in-depth reflections on what organizing and organizations become when doing organizational ethnography. This volume will offer students and scholars a profound understanding of organizational ethnography by presenting concrete examples, reflections and discussions of how to understand and adequately conceptualize the word organizational in organizational ethnography by combining" organizational phenomena" (e.g. strategy making, policymaking)," " "analytical perspectives "(sensemaking, narratives) and" ethnographical methods "(texts, interactions, shadowing in fieldwork)." " Furthermore "Organizational Ethnography" presents a wide range of organizational ethnographic field studies from both public organizations (e.g. a hospital, a public psychiatric care unit, city planning and day care) and private organizations (e.g. a consultancy firm, a medical company and an NGO). Thus different kinds of organizational contexts are presented, which facilitates a thorough discussion in the concluding chapter of the theoretical, methodological, analytical and contextual challenges associated with different kinds of organizational ethnographies. Collectively, the chapters provide students and researchers with a systematic, in-depth overview of the advantages and weaknesses of various organizational ethnographies. "Organizational Ethnography" focus on different organizational and analytical perspectives can provide inspiration for how to study a multiplicity of organizational phenomena (conflicts, strategies and practices). In this way "Organizational Ethnography" offers a contribution comprising a reflexive discussion and an elaboration of the organizational aspect of doing organizational ethnographies for academics, researchers, students and policy makers alike, This book presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on what the word organizational means in organizational ethnography. In the past five years, a new organizational studies research field has developed involving organizational ethnographies, which is when organizations are studied using ethnographical methods. This development has shed light on the methods and difficulties of organizational ethnography, and yet we argue that confusion still remains as to what organizational ethnographical approaches are. This edited volume offers students and scholars a profound understanding of organizational ethnography by presenting concrete examples, reflections and discussions of how to understand and adequately conceptualize the word organizational in organizational ethnography. All the chapters illustrate the work of analytically combining different organizational phenomena (e.g. strategy making, policymaking) , analytical perspectives (e.g. sensemaking, narratives) and ethnographical methods (e.g. texts, observations, shadowing, interviews) and demonstrate different ways of doing organizational ethnography . At the end of each chapter, an experienced researcher in the field offers comments and discussion on the contributions of the chapter, providing reflections on the implications for research in the field to which they ascribe. In Doing Organizational Ethnography, organizational is defined as polyphonic ways of organizing based on the interactions of the many voices, discourses, practices and narratives in and around organizations and the book provides readers with in-depth reflections on what organizing and organizations become when doing organizational ethnography.
9781138935594 113893559X In the past five years a new organizational studies research field has developed involving organizational ethnographies, which is when organizations are studied using ethnographical methods. This development has shed light on the difficulties of organizational ethnography and yet we argue that confusion remains as to what organizational ethnographical approaches are. " Organizational Ethnography" presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on the concept of what the word organizational means in organizational ethnography. We define organizational as polyphonic ways of organizing based on the interactions and co-production of the many voices, discourses, practices and narratives in and around organizations, thus providing readers with in-depth reflections on what organizing and organizations become when doing organizational ethnography. This volume will offer students and scholars a profound understanding of organizational ethnography by presenting concrete examples, reflections and discussions of how to understand and adequately conceptualize the word organizational in organizational ethnography by combining" organizational phenomena" (e.g. strategy making, policymaking)," " "analytical perspectives "(sensemaking, narratives) and" ethnographical methods "(texts, interactions, shadowing in fieldwork)." " Furthermore "Organizational Ethnography" presents a wide range of organizational ethnographic field studies from both public organizations (e.g. a hospital, a public psychiatric care unit, city planning and day care) and private organizations (e.g. a consultancy firm, a medical company and an NGO). Thus different kinds of organizational contexts are presented, which facilitates a thorough discussion in the concluding chapter of the theoretical, methodological, analytical and contextual challenges associated with different kinds of organizational ethnographies. Collectively, the chapters provide students and researchers with a systematic, in-depth overview of the advantages and weaknesses of various organizational ethnographies. "Organizational Ethnography" focus on different organizational and analytical perspectives can provide inspiration for how to study a multiplicity of organizational phenomena (conflicts, strategies and practices). In this way "Organizational Ethnography" offers a contribution comprising a reflexive discussion and an elaboration of the organizational aspect of doing organizational ethnographies for academics, researchers, students and policy makers alike, This book presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on what the word organizational means in organizational ethnography. In the past five years, a new organizational studies research field has developed involving organizational ethnographies, which is when organizations are studied using ethnographical methods. This development has shed light on the methods and difficulties of organizational ethnography, and yet we argue that confusion still remains as to what organizational ethnographical approaches are. This edited volume offers students and scholars a profound understanding of organizational ethnography by presenting concrete examples, reflections and discussions of how to understand and adequately conceptualize the word organizational in organizational ethnography. All the chapters illustrate the work of analytically combining different organizational phenomena (e.g. strategy making, policymaking) , analytical perspectives (e.g. sensemaking, narratives) and ethnographical methods (e.g. texts, observations, shadowing, interviews) and demonstrate different ways of doing organizational ethnography . At the end of each chapter, an experienced researcher in the field offers comments and discussion on the contributions of the chapter, providing reflections on the implications for research in the field to which they ascribe. In Doing Organizational Ethnography, organizational is defined as polyphonic ways of organizing based on the interactions of the many voices, discourses, practices and narratives in and around organizations and the book provides readers with in-depth reflections on what organizing and organizations become when doing organizational ethnography.