More than a method? Organisational ethnography as a way of imagining the social

Gaggiotti, Hugo; Kostera, Monika; Krzyworzeka, Pawe?

Abstract

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The authors–two anthropologists and an organisational theorist, all organisational ethnographers–discuss their understanding and practices of organisational ethnography (OE) as a way of imagining and reflect on how similar this understanding may be for young organisational researchers and students in particular. The discussion leads to the conclusion that OE may be regarded as a methodology but that it has a much greater potential when it is reclaiming its roots: to become a mode of doing social science on the meso-level. The discussion is based on an analysis of both historical material and the contemporary learning experiences of teaching OE as more than a method to our students.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 9, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jul 3, 2016
• Publication Date: Oct 20, 2017
• Deposit Date: Aug 15, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 3, 2018
• Journal: Culture and Organization
• Print ISSN: 1475-9551
• Electronic ISSN: 1477-2760
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 325-340
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2016.1203312
• Keywords: organisational ethnography, anthropology, teaching and learning organisational ethnography, sociological imagination, ethnographic imagination, research methods
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/879354
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14759551.2016.1203312
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Culture and Organization on 03 July 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14759551.2016.1203312
• Contract Date: Aug 15, 2016