Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexities of Everyday Life

Studying Everyday Organizational Life – Sierk Ybema, Dvora Yanow, Harry Wels and Frans Kamsteeg PART ONE: ETHNOGRAPHIC DOING AND WRITING Getting Going: Organizing Ethnographic Fieldwork – Kees van der Waal Ethnographic Practices: From ‘Writing-up Ethnographic Research’ to ‘Writing Ethnography’ – Michael Humphreys and Tony Watson Reading and Writing as Method: In Search of Trustworthy Texts – Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow When the ‘Subject’ and the ‘Researcher’ Speak Together: Co-producing Organizational Ethnography – Simon Down and Michael Hughes PART TWO: FAMILIARITY AND ‘STRANGER-NESS’ Making the Familiar Strange: A Case for Disengaged Organizational Ethnography – Sierk Ybema and Frans Kamsteeg Zooming In & Zooming Out: A Package of Method and Theory to Study Work Practices – Davide Nicolini From Participant Observation to Observant Participation – Brian Moeran At-home Ethnography: Struggling with Closeness and Closure – Mats Alvesson PART THREE: RESEARCHER-RESEARCHED RELATIONSHIPS Lies from the Field: Ethical Issues in Organizational Ethnography – Gary Alan Fine and David Shulman ‘But I Thought We Were Friends?’ Life Cycles and Research Relationships – Nic Beech, Paul Hibbert, Robert MacIntosh and Peter McInnes Critical Action Research and Organizational Ethnography – Chris Sykes and Lesley Treleaven Beyond Complicity: A Plea for Engaged Ethnography – Halleh Ghorashi and Harry Wels Annotated Bibliography Defining ‘Organizational Ethnography’: Selection Criteria – Dvora Yanow and Karin Geuijen Bibliography – Karin Geuijen