| Organizational Ethnography Contributor(s): Neyland, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1412923433 ISBN-13: 9781412923439 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $69.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: Ethnography has become an established method of researching organizational life. Ethnographic approaches provide in-depth insights into what people and organizations do on a day-to-day basis and provide the foundations for cutting-edge observational research in large and small organizations. Organizational Ethnography takes readers through the practical history of ethnography from its anthropological origins through to its use in an ever-widening variety of organizational, academic, and business contexts. Author David Neyland covers the whole research project process, starting with research design, and dealing with such practical issues as gaining access, note-taking, project management, analyzing one??'s data and negotiating an exit strategy. The book is highly practical and incorporates a range of case studies, illustrating organizational ethnography at work. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to plan and conduct their own ethnographic, observational, or participant observational research in an organizational context, whatever their level of experience and regardless of whether they are studying a business organization or other types of organization such as schools and hospitals . |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Research - Social Science | Methodology - Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior |
| Dewey: 302.350 |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 6.86" W x 9.41" (0.81 lbs) 192 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Organizational Ethnography takes readers through the practical history of ethnography from its anthropological origins through to its use in an ever-widening variety of organizational, academic, and business contexts. Author David Neyland covers the whole research project process, starting with research design, and dealing with such practical issues as gaining access, note-taking, project management, analyzing one′s data and negotiating an exit strategy. The book is highly practical and incorporates a range of case studies, illustrating organizational ethnography at work. |
Contributor Bio(s): Neyland, Daniel: - Daniel Neyland was a senior research fellow of the Said Business School, University of Oxford until October 2008 and has recently joined the Faculty at the University of Lancaster. His research incorporates issues of privacy, surveillance, trust, identity, governance and accountability. Alongside CCTV, he has researched airports, recycling, traffic management and the introduction of new technologies to universities. His latest research deals with the global movement of things through unevenly distributed accountability relationships. He is an experienced ethnographer who has contributed to research methods teaching at the business school. He completed his PhD (1997-2000) at CRICT, Brunel University. He studied for his first degree at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1993-1996). |
