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“Animals like us”: revisiting organizational ethnography and research

Wels, Harry - In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography 4 (2015) 3, pp. 242-259

Purpose – Now that the human-animal distinction is increasingly critiqued from various disciplinary perspectives, to the point where some suggest even letting go of the distinction completely, the purpose of this paper is to argue that organizational ethnography should start to explore in more...

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Everywhere and nowhere at once: the challenges of following in multi-sited ethnography

Van Duijn, Sarah - In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography 9 (2020) 3, pp. 281-294

Purpose In multi-sited ethnography, “following” (of, e.g. persons, objects and events) is used as a device to structure fieldwork. The purpose of this paper is to problematize and substantiate the notion of following, illustrating that, when adopting a “following” strategy, the endless...

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Developing end-user innovation from circuits of learning

Fosstenløkken, Siw M. - In: The Learning Organization 22 (2015) 3, pp. 182-194

Purpose – This paper aims to raise the question of how end-user product innovation is developed by exploring the underlying learning mechanisms that drive such idea realization in practice. A trialogical learning perspective from educational science is applied as an analytical approach to...

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The shadow in organizational ethnography: moving beyond shadowing to spect‐acting

Gill, Rebecca - In: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: … 6 (2011) 2, pp. 115-133

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the methodological practice of shadowing and its implications for ethnographic fieldwork. Furthermore, the paper challenges the label of “shadowing” and suggests a new label of “spect‐acting.” Design/methodology/approach – This...

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Shadowing in/as work: ten recommendations for shadowing fieldwork practice

Gill, Rebecca; Barbour, Joshua; Dean, Marleah - In: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: … 9 (2014) 1, pp. 69-89

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide practical recommendations for shadowing as a method of organizational study with a focus on the situated processes and practices of shadowing fieldwork. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reflects on the shadowing experiences of three...

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Urban gardens as inclusive green living rooms? Gardening activities in Gothenburg, across and within social divides

Wallinder, Ylva - In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography 13 (2024) 3, pp. 410-426

Purpose This study explores the social conditions for sustainability practices, addressing the processes whereby associational gardening practices in a highly segregated context may or may not create connections and capacities across urban social divides. Design/methodology/approach Based on...

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Unearthing narratives: an ethnographic lens on the organizational tapestry of massive iron ore mining operations

Khatua, Sonali; Dash, Manoranjan; Mishra, Padma Charan - In: Journal of Organizational Ethnography 13 (2024) 1, pp. 116-134

Purpose Ores and minerals are extracted from the earth’s crust depending on the type of deposit. Iron ore mines come under massive deposit patterns and have their own mine development and life cycles. This study aims to depict the development and life cycle of large open-pit iron ore mines and...

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Theories of truth as assessment criteria in judgment and decision making

Dunwoody, Philip T. - In: Judgment and Decision Making 4 (2009) 2, pp. 116-125

coherence) and 3) neglects the third philosophical theory of truth, pragmatism. Pragmatism, as a class of criteria in JDM, is …

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Frank Knight and pragmatism

Hands, D. Wade - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 13 (2006) 4, pp. 571-605

ideas were consistent with those of American pragmatism. Substantive textual evidence can be found to support almost any … context than it does about the broader relationship between his philosophical position and pragmatism. Knight was opposed to … the social control pragmatism of his day, but at the same time his general philosophical position has much in common with …

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The Empirical Semantics Approach to Communication Structure Learning and Usage: Individualistic Vs. Systemic Views

Nickles, Matthias; Rovatsos, Michael; Schmitt, Marco; … - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10 (2007) 1, pp. 5-5

In open systems of artificial agents, the meaning of communication in part emerges from ongoing interaction processes. In this paper, we present the empirical semantics approach to inductive derivation of communication semantics that can be used to derive this emergent semantics of communication...

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