Turning Words, Spinning Worlds: Chapter in Organizational Ethnography / Edition 1

by Michael Rosen

Overview

This collection represents Michael Rosen's encounter with an 'ethnography of the center'-the study of cultural orders in the heart of the metropolis. Considers occupational worlds from finance and advertising to the subworld of drug dealing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789058231017
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/21/2000
Series:	Management, Organizations and Society Series
Pages:	261
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rosen, Michael

Table of Contents

Organizational Ethnography; Introduction; Chapter 1 Coming to Terms with the Field: Understanding and Doing Organizational Ethnography; Chapter 2 Breakfast at Spiro’s: Dramaturgy and Dominance; Chapter 3 You asked for it: Christmas at the Bosses’ Expense; Ecological Ethnography; intro1 Introduction; Chapter 4 Crashing in ’87: Power and Symbolism in the Dow; Chapter 5 Staying on the String: The Yo and the Market in Eighty-Nine; Chapter 6 Building Buildings and Living Lives: A Critique of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Concrete Artifacts, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Kim S. Schmahmann; Contingent Knowledge; intro2 Introduction; Chapter 7 There to Here and no Way Back: The Late Life of a Cocaine Dealer, Thomas P. Mullen; Chapter 8 Scholars, Travelers, Thieves: On Concept, Method, and Cunning in Organizational Ethnography;

Editorial Reviews

Rosen's writing style anticipated and illustrates recent attention to writing practices

It is a collection in which both text and subtext speak to the possibilities and difficulties of ethnographic practice and its inextricably tied promise and pitfalls. And together

From the Publisher

It is a collection in which both text and subtext speak to the possibilities and difficulties of ethnographic practice and its inextricably tied promise and pitfalls. And together, in the light they cast upon each other, they produce what should be the ultimate goal of good ethnography: multilayered, evocative stories that ring of truth".

Gideon Kunda

Rosen's writing style anticipated and illustrates recent attention to writing practices, including narrative as method....his writing challenges the boundary between social science and fiction".

Dvora Yanow