Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the “manifesto” for organisational ethnography being put forward in the first issue of the Journal of Organizational Ethnography. Design/methodology/approach – The author draws upon several decades of personal experience of field...

Entrepreneurship studies are dominated by the disciplines of economics and psychology and work within a limiting methodological frame of reference; a ‘scientistic’ and individualistic framework that dominates the US-led mainstream of research. To achieve a more balanced scholarship, it is...

There is increasing recognition that entrepreneurship research needs to achieve a better balance between studying to entrepreneurial activities and setting these activities in their wider context. It is important that these good intentions are realized and one way of doing this is to bring...

It is common in discussions about human resource management (HRM) to distinguish between “rhetoric” and what is regarded as a clearly separate “reality”. This is naïve in that it fails to recognize the way those researching the human aspects of management and those practically involved...

1. Studying work, society and organisation -- 2. Analysing work and organisation : scientific management, human relations and negotiated orders -- 3. Analysing work and organisation : institutionalism, labour process and discourse analysis -- 4. Industrial capitalism, change and the possibility...

To provide a new understanding of the nature of management work The Emergent Manager concentrates on the lives and identities of real life managers inside and outside the workplace, whether that is a civil service department, a shop or a bank