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

Hugo Gaggiotti, Monika Kostera () and Paweł Krzyworzeka
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Hugo Gaggiotti: UWE Bristol - University of the West of England [Bristol]
Monika Kostera: UJ - Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie = Jagiellonian University = Université Jagellon de Cracovie, Durham University
Paweł Krzyworzeka: KU - Kozminski University

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Organisational ethnography; Anthropology; Teaching and learning organisational ethnography; Sociological imagination; Ethnographic imagination; Research methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Published in Culture and Organization, 2017, 23 (5), pp.325-340. ⟨10.1080/14759551.2016.1203312⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2016.1203312

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