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 critical inquiry such as anthropology. In addressing these issues, the contributors explore how researchers encounter and engage sites of organizational practice in such roles as suppliers of consumer-insight for product design or marketing, or as advisors on work design or business and organizational…mehr
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 critical inquiry such as anthropology. In addressing these issues, the contributors explore how researchers encounter and engage sites of organizational practice in such roles as suppliers of consumer-insight for product design or marketing, or as advisors on work design or business and organizational strategies. The volume contributes to the emerging canon of corporate ethnography, appealing to practitioners who wish to advance their understanding of the practice of corporate ethnography and providing rich material to those interested in new applications of ethnographic work and the ongoing rethinking of the nature of ethnographic praxis.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Melissa Cefkin is a cultural anthropologist with experience in research, management, teaching, and consulting for business and government. Currently based at IBM Research in the area of services research, she earned her PhD from Rice University and remains dedicated to pursuing a critical understanding of the intersections of anthropological practice within business and organizational settings.
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Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Business, anthropology and the growth of corporate ethnography Melissa Cefkin Encounters with corporate epistemologies Chapter 2. "My customers are different!" identity, difference and the political economy of design Donna K. Flynn Doing anthropology in organizational contexts Chapter 3. Participatory ethnography at work: Practicing in the puzzle palaces of a large, complex healthcare organization Chris Darrouzet, Helga Wild and Susann Wilkinson Chapter 4. Working in corporate jungles: Reflections on ethnographic praxis in industry Brigitte Jordan with Monique Lambert Refractions of anthropological ways of being and knowing Chapter 5. Writing on walls: The materiality of social memory in corporate research Dawn Nafus and Ken Anderson Chapter 6. The anthropologist as ontological choreographer Francoise Brun-Cottan Epistemologies, Part Two: Culture and the corporate encounter Chapter 7. Emergent culture, slippery culture - conflicting conceptualizations of culture in commercial ethnography Martin Ortlieb Another look: commentaries from the academy and corporate research Chapter 8. Insider trading: Engaging and valuing corporate ethnography Jeanette Blomberg Chapter 9. Emergent forms of life in corporate arenas Michael M. J. Fischer Notes on contributors Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Business, anthropology and the growth of corporate ethnography Melissa Cefkin Encounters with corporate epistemologies Chapter 2. "My customers are different!" identity, difference and the political economy of design Donna K. Flynn Doing anthropology in organizational contexts Chapter 3. Participatory ethnography at work: Practicing in the puzzle palaces of a large, complex healthcare organization Chris Darrouzet, Helga Wild and Susann Wilkinson Chapter 4. Working in corporate jungles: Reflections on ethnographic praxis in industry Brigitte Jordan with Monique Lambert Refractions of anthropological ways of being and knowing Chapter 5. Writing on walls: The materiality of social memory in corporate research Dawn Nafus and Ken Anderson Chapter 6. The anthropologist as ontological choreographer Francoise Brun-Cottan Epistemologies, Part Two: Culture and the corporate encounter Chapter 7. Emergent culture, slippery culture - conflicting conceptualizations of culture in commercial ethnography Martin Ortlieb Another look: commentaries from the academy and corporate research Chapter 8. Insider trading: Engaging and valuing corporate ethnography Jeanette Blomberg Chapter 9. Emergent forms of life in corporate arenas Michael M. J. Fischer Notes on contributors Bibliography Index
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