Organisational Anthropology : Doing Ethnography in and among Complex Organisations

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- 1. Entries: Engaging organisational worlds - Christina Garsten and Anette Nyqvist -- Section One: Corporate Corridors -- 2. Counter Intelligence: The contingencies of clerkship at the epicentre of convenience culture - Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw -- 3. Counter-espionage: Fieldwork among culture experts in Bang & Olufsen - Jakob Krause-Jensen -- 4. When life goes to work: Authenticity and managerial control in the contemporary firm - Peter Fleming -- 5. Oblique ethnography: Engaging collaborative complicity among globalised corporate managers - Emil A. Royrvik -- Section Two: Policy Arenas -- 6. Access to all stages? Studying through policy in a culture of accessibility - Anette Nyqvist -- 7. Punctuated entries: Doing fieldwork in policy meetings in the European Union - Renita Thedvall -- 8. The instrumental gaze: The case of public sector reorganisation - Halvard Vike -- Section Three: Working the Network -- 9. All about ties: Think tanks and the economy of connections - Christina Garsten -- 10. Working connections, helping friends: Fieldwork, organisations and cultural styles - Brian Moeran -- 11. Messy logic: Organisational interactions and joint commitment in railway planning - Asa Boholm -- Section Four: Opaque Worlds -- 12. The profane ethnographer: Fieldwork with a secretive organisation - Lilith Mahmud -- 13. Communicative nature of money: Aligning organisational anthropology with technocratic experiments - Douglas R. Holmes -- 14. Not being there: The power of strategic absence in organisational anthropology - Tara A. Schwegler -- 15. Momentum: Pushing ethnography ahead - Christina Garsten and Anette Nyqvist -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.