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in ethnography during the last 20 years. Design/methodology/approach – Within the paper the author produces a series of … reflections based upon his own experiences of writing ethnography, plus of reading the ethnographic accounts of others. Findings … – Ethnography remains relatively free from technical jargon and high‐wire abstraction. Because of its relative freedom from a …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the problems of teaching qualitative research methods to large culturally‐mixed groups of postgraduate business school students. Design/methodology/approach – After a consideration of some current relevant pedagogical issues the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of undertaking research on both participants and researcher. Design/methodology/approach – Taking an auto/ethnographic approach, the paper provides a reflexive account of the impact of research on identity construction, especially...
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Purpose – The paper's aim is twofold: to display how the application of social network analysis techniques to observational data provides researchers with a unique set of data to make sense of the dynamics of organizational settings; to contribute to knowledge on group design, self‐managing...
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Purpose – The paper aims to discuss liminal ethnography as a new approach for conducting research in segregated … discussed in conjunction with liminal ethnography. Findings – Liminal ethnography as outlined in the paper emerged as an …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of stories in a mental health environment. It includes an account of learning to read and recognise stories as a particular form of organizational narrative in the National Health Service (NHS). Design/methodology/approach – The study...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the myths and challenges in the field of organizational ethnography …‐5, 2008). It explores what might be distinctive about organizational ethnography and how that might be different from … “anthropological” ethnography. In particular, it engages a kind of collective methodological performance anxiety among organizational …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how actors within, on the surface, similar organizations cope and work with imposed institutional changes. Design methodology/approach – This research is based on an ethnographic field study addressing why, despite being exposed to the...
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organizational ethnography. Findings – The author argues that the audience needs to be able to judge a researcher's claims to …/implications – The paper offers a perspective on how to write organizational ethnography. Others will have to put this perspective into …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to expand recent discussions of research practice in organizational ethnography … “being there” as it applies to ethnography in contemporary organization studies and, through a confessional account exploring … the author's own experiences as a PhD student conducting ethnography, considers “being […] where?” using the analytic …
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