On the beat: variations in the patrolling styles of the police officer
AbstractPurpose– This article seeks to look at the police officer on patrol. It aims to explore three categories of work undertaken during periods of un-tasked patrol where officers can self-direct...
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AbstractPurpose– This ESRC-based research article aims to investigate the effects of performativity on primary schools and the teachers therein. It also aims to show how performativity to maintain and...
View ArticleStudying development organizations – towards a culture of participation?
AbstractPurpose– This article aims to provide new insights to current debates within the anthropology of (participatory) development by presenting a theoretically-informed, ethnographic case study of a...
View ArticleAcross the little divide? Life histories of public and third sector “boundary...
AbstractPurpose– Organizational life and policy making is increasingly conceived in terms of a “three sector” model – public, private and “third”. The purpose of this research paper is to examine a...
View ArticleRestructuring in the Toyota keiretsu during the Asian financial crash: A case...
AbstractPurpose– The economic downturn in Japan in the 1990s and the Asian economic crash of 1997 led to widespread restructuring of corporate organizations in Japan. This paper aims to use...
View ArticleBook review John van Maanen Tales of the Field On Writing Ethnography, Second...
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View ArticleMoments of Identity Formation and Reformation - A Day in the Working Life of...
AbstractPurpose - The purpose of the article is to illuminate micro-processes and dynamics of identity work in an academic working context. It elaborates on the various and shifting self-notions...
View ArticleExploring inter-departmental barriers between production and quality
AbstractPurpose - To demonstrate the value of adopting an organizational ecological perspective to explore behavioural barriers in a UK Operations & Production Management (OPM) setting....
View ArticleFeet of Clay: Confronting Emotional Challenges in Ethnographic Experience
AbstractPurpose - Ethnographers, as tools of data collection, are uniquely positioned in a paradoxical relationship between intense immersion and objective distance from research and participants. This...
View Article"Getting on" and "getting by" underground: Gold miners’ informal working...
AbstractPurpose - This paper examines the interaction between formal and informal organisation of work inside the pit, with reference to the informal working or coping strategy of "making a plan"...
View ArticleEditorial: Extending the assessment of anthropology’s history in...
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View ArticleMoments of identity formation and reformation: a day in the working life of...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of the article is to illuminate micro-processes and dynamics of identity work in an academic working context. It elaborates on the various and shifting self-notions...
View ArticleExploring inter-departmental barriers between production and quality
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the value of adopting an organizational ecological perspective to explore behavioural barriers in a UK operations & production...
View ArticleFeet of clay: confronting emotional challenges in ethnographic experience
AbstractPurpose– Ethnographers, as tools of data collection, are uniquely positioned in a paradoxical relationship between intense immersion and objective distance from research and participants. This...
View Article“Getting on” and “getting by” underground: Gold miners’ informal working...
AbstractPurpose– This paper aims to examine the interaction between formal and informal organisation of work inside the pit, with reference to the informal working or coping strategy of “making a plan”...
View ArticleCreativity as collaboration
Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relations and processes by which creativity is assembled, and how this mode of creativity...
View ArticlePassing and moving: negotiating fieldwork roles in football fandom research
Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Ahead of Print. Purpose Gaining access to the research field has received much academic attention; however, the literature focusing on the changing and/or...
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