Doing Organizational Ethnography / Edition 1

by Anne Reff Pedersen, Didde Humle

Overview

This book presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on what the word organizational means in organizational ethnography. In the past five years, a new organizational studies research field has developed involving organizational ethnographies, which is when organizations are studied using ethnographical methods. This development has shed light on the methods and difficulties of organizational ethnography, and yet we argue that confusion still remains as to what organizational ethnographical approaches are.

This edited volume offers students and scholars a profound understanding of organizational ethnography by presenting concrete examples, reflections and discussions of how to understand and adequately conceptualize the word organizational in organizational ethnography. All the chapters illustrate the work of analytically combining different organizational phenomena (e.g. strategy making, policymaking), analytical perspectives (e.g. sensemaking, narratives) and ethnographical methods (e.g. texts, observations, shadowing, interviews) and demonstrate different ways of doing organizational ethnography. At the end of each chapter, an experienced researcher in the field offers comments and discussion on the contributions of the chapter, providing reflections on the implications for research in the field to which they ascribe.

In Doing Organizational Ethnography, organizational is defined as polyphonic ways of organizing based on the interactions of the many voices, discourses, practices and narratives in and around organizations and the book provides readers with in-depth reflections on what organizing and organizations become when doing organizational ethnography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138935594
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/20/2016
Series:	Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society , #38
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anne Reff Pedersen is Associate Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Didde Maria Humle is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Copenhagen Business School and University College UCC, Denmark.

Table of Contents

1. Doing Organizational Ethnography

Anne Reff Pedersen and Didde Maria Humle

Part 1: Studies of Strategy, Conflict, and Branding in Nonprofit and Private Organizations

2. Everyday Conflict at Work: An Organizational Sensemaking Ethnography

Elisabeth Naima Mikkelsen and discussant Barbara Gray

3. Doing Strategy: A Performative Organizational Ethnography

Marie Mathiesen and discussant Chahrazad Abdallah

4. Examining Branding in Organizations by Using Critical Organizational Ethnography

Sanne Frandsen and discussant Dan Kärreman

Part 2: Knowledge Organizations and Studies of Everyday Work

5. A Web of Work-life Stories: A Narrative Organizational Ethnography

Didde Maria Humle and discussant David M. Boje

6. The Logic of Nursing Work: An Organizational Ethnography of Practice

Jette Ernst and discussant Davide Nicolini

7. Contexting the Patient: A Meeting Ethnography of Patient Involvement in Quality Development

Mette Brehm Johansen and discussant Anne Reff Pedersen

Part 3: Public Organization Studies of Management and Collaborative Innovation

8. Meaning Negotiations of Collaborative Governance: A Discourse-Based Ethnography

Mie Plotnikov and discussant Danielle Zandee

9. Leadership of Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector: An Engaged-Scholarship Ethnography

Jesper Rohr Hansen and discussant Steven Griggs

10. Montage Ethnography: Editing and Co-Analyzing Voices from the Field

Morten Arnfred and discussant Mike Rowe