Organisational Anthropology

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  • ISBN 9780745335285
  • Weight: 404g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 230mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Dec 2014
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Organisational Anthropology is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations, focusing on the process of initiating contact, establishing rapport and gaining the trust of an organisation's members.

The thirteen contributors work from the premise that doing fieldwork in an organisation shares essential characteristics with fieldwork in more 'classical' anthropological environments, but that it also poses some particular challenges to the ethnographer, with barriers including the ideological or financial interests of the organisations, protection of resources and competition between organisations.

A number of organisational contexts - including corporations, EU policy arenas, think tanks and the public sector - are explored in case studies from the UK, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Mexico and the USA.
Christina Garsten is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and Chair of the Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research. She is the co-editor of Organisational Anthropology (Pluto, 2014), Ethical Dilemmas in Management Organizing (2009) and Transnational Accountability (2008) and author of Workplace Vagabonds: Career and Community in Changing Worlds of Work (2008). Anette Nyqvist is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and holds a research position at Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research. She is the co-editor of Organisational Anthropology (Pluto, 2014) and the author of Opening the Orange Envelope: Risk and Responsibility in the Remaking of Sweden's National Pension System (2008).