Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Abstracts xiv
Expanding the Field of Organizational Anthropology for the Twenty-first Century 1 Ann T. Jordan and D. Douglas Caulkins
Part I Critique and Theory 25
1. The Organization of Anthropology and Higher Education in the United States 27 Davydd J. Greenwood
2. The Changing Rhetoric of Corporate Culture 56 Allen W. Batteau
3. New Institutional Approaches to Formal Organizations 74 Marietta L. Baba, Jeanette Blomberg, Christine LaBond, and Inez Adams
4. Entrepreneurship Studies 98 Peter Rosa and D. Douglas Caulkins
5. Neurological Model of Organizational Culture 122 Tomoko Hamada Connolly
Part II Methods and Analysis 147
6. Social Networks and Organizations 149 Brandon Ofem, Theresa M. Floyd, and Stephen P. Borgatti
7. A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understand Global Networked Organizations 167 Julia C. Gluesing
8. Measuring Organizational Dynamics 193 Gerald Mars
9. Semiotics of Organizations 204 Joseph D. Hankins
10. An Ethnography of Numbers 219 Daniel Neyland
11. Managing Conflict on Organizational Partnerships 236 Elizabeth K. Briody
Part III Organizational Processes 257
12. Working on Work Organizations 259 Charles N. Darrah and Alicia Dornadic
13. Organizational Innovation Is a Participative Process 275 Morten Levin
14. Communities of Practice 289 Susan Squires and Michael L. Van De Vanter
15. Organizational Networks and Social Capital 311 Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen and Christian Waldstrøm
16. American Labor Unions as Organizations 328 Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem
17. Virtual Organizations 346 Christina Wasson
18. Sustaining Social Sector Organizations 362 Joan A. Tucker and D. Douglas Caulkins
Part IV Globalization, Development, and Modernization 379
19. The Contemporary World of Finance 381 Allen W. Batteau
20. Globalization, Modernization, and Complex Organizations 399 Ann T. Jordan
21. Chinese Business Ventures into China 418 Heidi Dahles and Juliette Koning
22. Corporate Social Responsibility: Interaction between Market and Community 438 Bengi Ertuna
23. NGOs and Community Development: Assessing the Contributions from Sen’s Perspective of Freedom 455 J. Montgomery Roper
24. Why Are Indigenous Organizations Declining in Latin America? 471 Carmen Martínez Novo
25. Australian Indigenous Organizations 493 Sarah E. Holcombe and Patrick Sullivan
26. Organization of Schooling in Three Countries 519 Edmund T. Hamann, Saloshna Vandeyar, and Juan Sánchez García
Index 538