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Ethnography beyond the tribe: from immersion to “committed localism” in the study of relational work Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Irene Skovgaard-Smith
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to propose a shift from the ideal of immersion to a practice of “committed localism” in the ethnographic study of relational work in the post-bureaucratic and service-based economy. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork following management consultancy projects in a hospital and a manufacturing company in Denmark. The approach was
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Autoethnographic reflections on creating inclusive and collaborative virtual places for academic research Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Cristina-Alexandra Trifan, Roxane de Waegh, Yunzi Zhang, Can-Seng Ooi
Purpose This paper explores the collaborative dynamics and dimensions within a virtual multi-cultural and interdisciplinary workplace. The study focusses on the use of online communication technologies to enhance social inclusion and networking within academia. Design/methodology/approach This study uses an autoethnographic approach to draw on the personal experiences of a team of four scholars, including
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Learning under lockdown: sensing, feeling and learning to work from home Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Julian Waters-Lynch, Cameron Duff
Purpose The purpose of this study is to reflect on and analyse the sensory experiences related to the transition to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research seeks to understand how these experiences have influenced the integration of work practices into home and family life and the subsequent adaptations and embodied learning that arise in response. Design/methodology/approach The authors'
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Beyond methodology: unveiling multisited entrepreneurship Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Bas Becker, Carel Roessingh
Purpose Multisited ethnography has primarily been portrayed as a challenge for the following field-worker, with the researcher taking the central role and neglecting research participants also experiencing a multisited nature of their work. The authors argue that literature on multisited ethnography merely discusses multisitedness as a methodological theme. In correspondence, the authors propose to
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“That's not a proper ethnography”: a hybrid “propportune” ethnography to study nurses' perceptions of organisational culture in a British hospital Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Sally Sambrook, Charlotte Hillier, Clair Doloriert
Purpose This paper revolves around the central question: is it possible to do “proper ethnography” without complete participant observation? The authors draw upon a student's experiences of negotiating National Health Service (NHS) ethical approval requirements and access into the student's research field, a British NHS hospital and having to adapt data collection methods for the student's doctoral
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Memories that last: evaluating the impact of eco-tourism on children's future behaviour Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Tamas Lestar, Jessica Clare Hancock
Purpose This paper analyses children's experiences of school or family visits to Hare Krishna eco-farms in Europe. The article evaluates the extent to which these encounters enable retention and recollection of memories and, consequently, trigger change towards more sustainable behaviour. Design/methodology/approach Participatory research, qualitative observations and theories of childhood memory are
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Autoethnography in the modern workplace: a reflexive journey Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Marko Orel
Purpose This conceptual paper seeks to critically evaluate and illuminate the diverse autoethnographic methodologies that are pivotal for understanding the dynamics of contemporary workspaces. The objective is to contribute to the ongoing scholarly debate on the value of autoethnography in workplace research and explore how it can shed light on complex organizational phenomena. Design/methodology/approach
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A system psychodynamic perspective on collaborative leadership in multiparty systems: learnings from a behavioral simulation Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Sandra G.L. Schruijer, Petru Lucian Curseu
Purpose This paper aims to provide a deeper understanding of what collaborative leadership in interorganizational systems entails. Design/methodology/approach The empirical basis consists of the dynamics observed during two behavioral simulations involving seven stakeholders with managers and professionals as participants, dealing with a complex regional development issue. Findings The authors describe
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“I don't want a child”: an apolitical argument in climate change trials in Switzerland Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Clémence Demay, Mathilde Krähenbühl
Purpose This paper aims to explore how the argument of “eco-reproductive” concerns was mobilized in climate change trials in Switzerland. Looking at social movements' advantages and constraints when having recourse to the law, the authors interrogate why the symbolism of reproduction and kinship represented a political opportunity to defend the activists in a judicial system where judging is seen as
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Research ethics and organizations: the neglected ethics of organizational ethnography Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Catharina Juul Kristensen
Purpose Working with organizations is central to organizational ethnography. However, while research ethics relating to individual participants is widely discussed, research ethics relating to the organizations has been neglected. The purpose of this article is to address this shortcoming and introduce the concept and domain of “meso-ethics” in research ethics. Meso-ethics pertains to organizations
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Hack for impact – sociomateriality and the emergent structuration of social hackathons Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Julianna Faludi
Purpose Social hackathons are events designed to craft social change using technology that enables citizen empowerment or addresses societal issues by deploying data. Hackathons provide a framework for organizing to help create prototypes and business models through interaction with technology. The relevance of the sociomateriality of the emergent technology (prototype) and organizational structure
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Field, place or space? A carnal ethnography of a therapeutic space-construct Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Anna Milena Galazka
Purpose In advancing the academic discourse around the theory of field, place and space in ethnographic research, this paper proposes a carnal sociological reading of the meaning and form of the Lindsay Leg Clubs – third-sector community leg care centres for older adults with leg problems – as a therapeutic space-construct. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on non-formulaic, polymorphic ethnographic
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From the ethnographers' side: escaping rocks and pitfalls in swinger research Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Margaret J. Vaynman, J. Tuomas Harviainen
Purpose This paper presents a model for organizational ethnographers that wish to find new methodological approaches for the study of swingers and other marginalized groups that deal with potential social stigma and form communities around the lifestyles of swingers and other groups. Design/methodology/approach An ethnographic, qualitative study was conducted by (first author) in Spain and France using
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Mitigating challenges of collaborative science through team ethnography Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Eduardo Piqueiras, Erin Stanley, Allison Laskey
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand the use of ethnography to advance research on team science by revealing the barriers to teamwork as manifesting at institutional, cultural, and interpersonal contextual scales. The analysis suggests strategies to enhance team science's collaborative potential. Design/methodology/approach This paper considers some of the practical and analytical challenges
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The dual institutional work of Lyra's Walk: partisan violence and peace protest in Northern Ireland Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Devon Gidley, Amanda J. Lubit
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore peace protest as a form of institutional work aimed at supporting one institution and disrupting another. Design/methodology/approach The authors utilized walking ethnography (28 miles in 18 h while conducting 25 walking interviews) and digital media analysis (news reports, social media and electronic communication). Findings Walking participants engaged
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Problematising access: reflections on ethnography in a bureaucratic organisation Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Nikkie Buskermolen
Purpose The article aims to explore the methodological implications of gaining access into a bureaucratic organisation for an ethnographic research project. It broadens the understanding of this crucial part of ethnographic research and problematises the notion of access by questioning the view of access as an official, singular and straightforward moment prior to fieldwork. Design/methodology/approach
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Introducing “navigating failure in ethnography”: a forum about failure in ethnographic research Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Rafael Verbuyst, Anna Milena Galazka
Purpose The authors introduce a recurrent section for the Journal of Organizational Ethnography which scrutinizes the various manifestations and roles of failure in ethnographic research. Design/methodology/approach The authors peruse a wide body of literature which tackles the role of failure in ethnographic research and draw on the experiences to argue for a more sustained and in-depth conversation
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Suffering, recovery and participant experience in a video game development accelerator Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Devon Gidley, Mark Palmer, Amani Gharib
Purpose The authors aimed to explore how involvement in a creative development accelerator impacted participants. In particular, the authors considered the role of suffering in the acceleration process. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted an ethnography of a rapid prototyping program in video game development. Data collection included participant observation (162 h before, 186 during
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White, Brown, mad, fat, male and female academics: a duoethnography challenging our experiences of deficit identities Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Joanna Fox, Jas Sangha
Purpose The authors are two social work academics working in a UK Higher Education Institute. Social work is underpinned by principles of anti-oppressive practice which leads to challenge discrimination and stigmatisation. The authors explored experiences of deficit imposed by others' perceptions of the physical and ethnic appearance and mental health status. The authors consider how these features
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Braided identities in acute care nurses' practices of work: professional, clinician, employee Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Sarah Lake, Trudy Rudge, Sandra West
Purpose This paper aims to explore how dispositions of nursing habitus carry shift handover into practice in acute care. Design/methodology/approach Handover (the exchange of information by nurses between shifts) is more recently purported to be a procedure that transfers the responsibility of and accountability for care to maintain patient safety. Using Bourdieu's theory of practice as lens, this
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“Too quality”! Professional boundary setting and the ISO 56000 standard on innovation management. In honor of Dorothy E. Smith (1926–2022) Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Maria Duclos Lindstrøm
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to pay homage to Dorothy E. Smith (1926–2022), and her lifelong significance for organizational ethnography. Building on Smith, the empirical purpose of the paper is to analyze professional boundary setting on behalf of innovation management as it occurred in the recent International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committees (TC) 279 committee on
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Multicultural experience in organisations: an auto-ethnographic enquiry Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Dhammika (Dave) Guruge
Purpose This paper aims to draw attention to multicultural experience as a manager. It is an auto-ethnographic enquiry which comprises own experiences and intercultural and intra-cultural engagement of the author’s self in both mono-cultural and multicultural environments drawing from archival records of personal account of experience. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopted auto-ethnographic
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A Seventh-day Adventist farm community in Tanzania and vegetarianism as a social practice Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Tamas Lestar
Purpose This paper is the outcome of an empirical research on a Seventh-day Adventist farm in Tanzania. The author investigated the role of Christian spirituality in switching to and maintaining vegetarian practices. Dietary change is proposed in the sustainability literature as a crucial trajectory to mitigate the impacts of climate change. The purpose of this paper is to explore the links between
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Choose, buy, pay – Paradoxes of shame-relieving processes among impoverished Spaniards after 2008’s great recession Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia, Miranda Jessica Lubbers, Jose Luis Molina
Purpose The aim of the paper is to ethnographically detail the poverty-shame nexus in contemporary Spain, and to highlight the contradictions of the newly adopted consumption-based models of inclusion led by charities. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on 39 cases out of a sample of 78 gathered through two long-term research projects, the paper employs a mixed-methods approach that mainly draws on
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Governing anticipation: UNESCO making humankind futures literate Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Ulrik Jennische, Adrienne Sörbom
Purpose This paper explores practices of foresight within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) program Futures Literacy, as a form of transnational governmentality–founded on the interests of “using the future” by “emancipating” the minds of humanity. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on ethnographic material gathered over five years within the industry
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Guest editorial: Organizing the city Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Bagga Bjerge,Jonas Strandholdt Bach
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COVID-19 and tourism stakeholders: experience, behaviour and transformation Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-03-09 M.R. Dileep, Joshu Ajoon, Bipithalal Balakrishnan Nair
Purpose The tourism sector’s fragility lends significance to mental health and wellbeing, especially amongst workers in the hotel and tourism sectors. However, stakeholders’ subjective wellbeing and mental health in these sectors due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic remain under-researched, especially for destinations with unique selling propositions (USPs). Thus, this study investigates
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Police stops in Germany – between legal rules and informal practices Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Hartmut Aden, Alexander Bosch, Jan Fährmann, Roman Thurn
Purpose This paper analyzes micro-political strategies that police officers use during police stops, mostly based on their professional or personal life experience. Police stops take place in an asymmetric power relationship. Actions of police officers during a stop are backed by strong legal powers, and citizens typically do not negotiate how the stop should be carried out. Design/methodology/approach
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“Police spatial knowledge” – Aspects of spatial constitutions by the police Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Eva Brauer, Tamara Dangelmaier, Daniela Hunold
Purpose The article presents research results of an ethnographic survey within the German police. The focus is on practices of spatial production and the functions of spaces. Design/methodology/approach The article draws on data from the DFG-funded research project KORSIT (Social Construction of security-related Spaces) based on an ethnographic survey in the German police force (https://www.dhpol.de/korsit)
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Studying trust in the leader by co-produced autoethnography: an organizational esthetics approach Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Päivi Kosonen, Mirjami Ikonen
Purpose This paper aims at examining the prospects and possibilities of autoethnography in trust research. The focus of this study is on trust-building in a management team from an esthetic leadership perspective. The empirical context of the study is the organization of higher education during a funding reform. Design/methodology/approach This study adopted a qualitative research strategy with co-produced
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The missing builders: craftwork and crafty resistance in the “eco-metropolis” of Copenhagen Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Maia Ebsen
Purpose The paper ethnographically explores modes of urban resistance emerging in tandem with climate change mitigation programs in Copenhagen. Design/methodology/approach Building on 11 months of fieldwork with a Danish construction enterprise, the paper examines the politics of urban climate change mitigation programs through the lens of a group of builders' struggles to rethink and resolve dilemmas
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Inclusive gentrification? Reproducing logics of exclusion in strategies for inclusive urban planning Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Maj Nygaard-Christensen, Bagga Bjerge
Purpose The authors investigate two contrasting, yet mutually constitutive strategies for regulating open drug scenes in the city of Aarhus, Denmark: A strategy of dispersing marginalized substance users from the inner city, and a simultaneous strategy of inclusion in a new, gentrifying neighbourhood. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply a multi-temporal ethnography approach, including data
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Police selectivity “on demand”: the role of organisational justice in promoting procedural justice Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Sarah Van Praet
Purpose This paper presents the results of an action research with a Brussels’ police force. This research aimed to identify elements or mechanisms within police selectivity that put pressure on the relationship between the public and the police and affect the equal treatment of individuals and groups. Montjardet (1996) looks to understand structural, organisational of other factors as weighing on
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Police interactions in post-colonial India: how particularistic accountability, legitimacy and tolerated illegality condition everyday policing in Delhi and Kerala Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Ashwin Varghese
Purpose The paper aims to relocate discussions on police stops and police interactions from the Anglophone world to the particularistic context of the post-colonial state of India. The paper further frames the everyday policing practices in a theoretical dialog between questions of legitimacy, accountability and tolerated illegalities. For that purpose, the author contextualizes the discussion in the
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Moral urban citizenship and the youth problem in a Danish ghetto Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Jonas Strandholdt Bach, Nanna Schneidermann
Purpose This article examines the interventions from municipality, state and other actors in the Gellerup estate, a Danish “ghetto” by focusing on the youth problem and its construction, by examining a cross-disciplinary academic workshop intending to “solve the youth problem” of the estate. Design/methodology/approach The article is based on the two authors' participation in the academic workshop
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Urbanization and the organization of territorial cohesion – results from a comparative Danish case-study on territorial inequality and social cohesion Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Anja Jørgensen, Mia Arp Fallov
Purpose There is a growing importance for public facilitation of corporate social responsibility and involvement of civil organizations in securing territorial cohesion and development. In the present article, the authors focus on how we are to understand a locally sensitive organization of territorial cohesion in the Danish context. Traditional sociological concepts and standardized area-types used
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A lack of mess? Advice on undertaking video-mediated participant observations Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Ea Høg Utoft, Mie Kusk Søndergaard, Anna-Kathrine Bendtsen
Purpose This article offers practical advice to ethnographers venturing into doing participant observations through, but not about, videoconferencing applications such as Zoom, for which the methods literature offers little guidance. Design/methodology/approach The article stems from a research project about a BioMedical Design Fellowship. As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the Fellowship converted all
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Confronting the nameless-faceless: a duoethnography of navigating turnover and early career socialization Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-10-22 Norma López, Demetri L. Morgan
Purpose The purpose of this duoethnography was to share our narratives as a left-behind early career faculty (ECF) and graduate student with minoritized identities and reflect on academic socialization processes. Specifically, when many scholars are raising alarms about the retention and success of faculty with minoritized identities, it is crucial to recognize the dimensions of socialization within
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Charting the future of business and organizational ethnography Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Melissa Fisher
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An ethnography of parliamentary ethnographers: riffs, rhythms and rituals in their research Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Emma Crewe
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Sensory ethnography: a creative turn Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-12-07 David Calvey
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Organizational ethnography after lockdown: “walking with the trouble” Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Frans Kamsteeg,Layla Durrani,Harry Wels
Particularly, Down to Earth (2018), to which his new book is described as “sequel” [4], marks and links this dual crisis of COVID-19 and the global climate: “After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and the lockdowns, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, hoping to return as soon as possible to ‘the world as it was before the pandemic’” [5]. In the hope
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Reflections on publishing ethnographic work Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Mike Rowe,Bagga Bjerge
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Police stops, suspicion and the influence of police department cultures: a look into the Belgian context Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Inès Saudelli, Sofie De Kimpe, Jenneke Christiaens
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how suspicion that leads to a police stop is developed by police officers in Belgium, and the way in which police department culture influences the creation of suspicion. Design/methodology/approach The data on which this article is based are the result of an ethnographic study within two local Belgian police forces. In total, the researcher has observed
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Composite actors as participant protection: methodological opportunities for ethnographers Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Jennifer MJ Yim, Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
Purpose The purpose of this article is to persuade ethnographers to consider using composites for studies in which protecting participants from identification is especially important. It situates the argument in the context of the transparency and data sharing movements' uneven influence across disciplines. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews problems in maintaining confidentiality of research
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Reflections of a feminist organizational ethnographer: considering the subject matter and the research setting Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-09-22 Irene Ryan
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflexively reconsider the effects of the author’s pre-understandings, both academic and non-academic, on the subject matter and the research setting. The unforeseen implications of this disjuncture on our research practice and the expected deliverables are discussed. Design/methodology/approach The paper engages in a critical, self-reflexive dialogue of a journey
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Idea work online: shelters and crutches in remote collaborative autoethnography Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Anna Dziuba, Janne Tienari, Liisa Välikangas
Purpose The three authors of this paper are intrigued by ideas and how they are created. The purpose of this paper is to explore idea creation and work by means of remote collaborative autoethnography. Design/methodology/approach During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, the authors sent texts to each other, followed up on each other's thoughts and discussed them in online meetings. They shared, analyzed
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Governing urban diversity through myths of national sameness – a comparative analysis of Denmark and Sweden Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Tina Gudrun Jensen, Rebecka Söderberg
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore problematisations of urban diversity in urban and integration policies in Denmark and Sweden; the paper aims to show how such policies express social imaginaries about the self and the other and underlying assumptions of sameness that legitimise diverging ways of managing urban diversity and (re)organising the city. Design/methodology/approach Inspired
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Organizational forgetting in local governments: a study from rural India Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-08-10 Soumyabrato Bagchi, Bhaskar Chakrabarti
Purpose The aim of this paper is to develop a theory of organizational forgetting in the context of local governments from the paradigmatic lens of existing research orchestrated in management literature. The paper empirically explores how and why local governments forget and discusses the role of local politics in promoting memory loss in organizations. Design/methodology/approach The authors do an
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Deadly dialogues: The Magherini case and police brutalities in Italy Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-08-06 Vincenzo Scalia
Purpose This paper looks at police brutalities in Italy. In particular, the discussion focusses on the case of the death of Riccardo Magherini, who was stopped by the Corpo dei Carabinieri (CC), a branch of the Italian Army operating as a police force, on the 3rd of March 2014. The paper focusses on the way the police agents involved in the Magherini trial, both witnesses and defendants, made sense
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Editorial: Time for a fresh approach, for a (not so) new journal, a journal for new times Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Matthew Brannan,Manuela Nocker,Mike Rowe
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Suspicious minds and suspicioning: constructing suspicion during policework Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-07-05 Ross Hendy
Purpose This article explores officer use of suspicion before informal police-citizen encounters as a method to further understand police officer decision-making. There is a body of research focused on officer decision-making before formal “stop and search” encounters, yet, while the more informal “stop and chat” encounters are ubiquitous, they are a comparatively under-researched part of policework
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Performing an FSC audit Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-06-09 William Cook, Esther Turnhout, Séverine van Bommel
Purpose The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) intends to promote responsible forestry through its certification scheme. The primary engine that drives this promotion is auditing. Audits serve a dual purpose: they make forest managers accountable for their claim of meeting the FSC standard, and they make the actions of auditors and auditee account-able, or able to be put into an account. The latter of
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The securitized workplace: document protection, insider threats and emerging ethnographic barriers in a South Korean organization Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Michael M. Prentice
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how document protection has become a key object of concern for organizations, how the threat of leaks has led to an increase in security technologies and policies and how these developments present new and emergent ethnographic challenges for researchers. Through a study of a South Korean organization, the paper aims to demonstrate the ways workplace
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Real-estate valuation and the organization of the city: a document-centred ethnography of Tel Aviv's planning in action Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-05-05 Uri Ansenberg
Purpose The increasing financialization of urban organization has been well-documented over the last couple of decades. Nevertheless, the planning process has been seen as distinct from the financial. By questioning this assumption and examining where the two spheres interact, this paper argues that the enmeshment of finance and planning produces an overlapping of the two, which refuses any attempt
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Food assistance in Portugal: organizational challenges in three different contexts Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Fábio Rafael Augusto
Purpose Drawing on an ethnographic research study, developed in three different food assistance initiatives (FAIs) operating in Portugal, this article seeks to explore the elements that characterize them and the main organizational challenges they face. Design/methodology/approach Participant observation was carried out in a surplus food redistribution charity, a soup kitchen and a social supermarket
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Control and autonomy: resource dependence relations and non-profit organizations Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Malin Arvidson, Stig Linde
Purpose For non-profit organizations (NPOs) external funding is an essential resource. Studies highlight how control is attributed to funders and so external funding threatens the autonomy of the recipient organization. The purpose of this study is to investigate how external control can be structured and exercised, and to explore how control interacts with organizational autonomy. Design/methodology/approach
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Taking sides with patients using institutional ethnography Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Caroline Cupit, Janet Rankin, Natalie Armstrong
Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to document the first author's experience of using institutional ethnography (IE) to “take sides” in healthcare research. The authors illustrate the points with data and key findings from a study of cardiovascular disease prevention. Design/methodology/approach The authors use Dorothy E Smith's IE approach, and particularly the theoretical tool of “standpoint”
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Communicate belonging? Duoethnography of an organisational change study Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Ivana Crestani, Jill Fenton Taylor
Purpose This duoethnography explores feelings of belonging that emerged as being relevant to the participants of a doctoral organisational change study. It challenges the prolific change management models that inadvertently encourage anti-belonging. Design/methodology/approach A change management practitioner and her doctoral supervisor share their dialogic reflections and reflexivity on the case study
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The impostor syndrome: language barriers in organizational ethnography Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2021-02-16 Virginia Rosales
Purpose The use of organizational ethnography has grown significantly during the past decades. While language is an important component of ethnographic research, the challenges associated with language barriers are rarely discussed in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to open up a discussion on language barriers in organizational ethnography. Design/methodology/approach The author draws