Routledge Companion to Anthropology and Business

<p>Interest in anthropology and ethnography has been an ongoing feature of organizational research and pedagogy; this book provides a key reference text that pulls together the different ways in which anthropology infuses the study of organizations, both epistemologically and methodologically.</p><p>The volume hosts key scholars and experts within the fields of Organizational Anthropology, Organizational Ethnography, Organizational Studies and Qualitative Research.</p><p>The book provides a combination of methodological guidelines, exemplars and epistemological reflection. It includes methodological viewpoints, ethnographic journeys within organizations as well as beyond organizations, and individual reflections on challenges faced by organizational ethnographers.</p><p>This book is aimed at PhD, master and advanced undergraduate students and researchers across disciplines, especially those who are engaged with general management, organizational behaviour, strategy and anthropological/ethnographic issues.</p> <p>1. Athropology and Organization Studies: A Symbiotic Connection; <strong>2. </strong>Archival Ethnography; 3. A History of Markets Past: The Role of Institutional Memory Failure in Financial Crises; 4. What Good Is the Ethnographic Interview?; 5. Frames of the Field: Ethnography as Photography; 6. Ethnography Air-Conditioned; 7. Consumer Culture Theory: An Anthropological Contribution to Consumption Studies; 8. The Creative Use of Insider Ethnography as a Means for Organizational Self Investigation: The "Essence of Tesco" Project; 9. Contextual Analytics: Using Human Science to Strengthen Data Science Approaches in the Development of Algorithms; 10. Managing Meat and Non-meat Markets in Contemporary India; 11. "How Do I Like Being a Policewoman? I’m Very Happy!": Pakistani Policewomen and the Challenge of Presentational Data; 12. Impact Quantification and Integration in Impact Investing; 13. Exploring the Accomplishment of Inter-organizational Collaboration: The Value of Thick Descriptions; 14. Managerial Work with Digitalization: A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Approach to Data and Data-Driven Management in Practice; 15. Still a Man’s World: Finding Gender Issues in Tokyo Fashion Week; 16. What Makes Resilience? An Ethnographic Study of the Work of Prison Officers; 17. Organisational Dilemmas, Gender and Ethnicity: A Video Ethnographic Approach to Talk and Gestures in Homeless Shelter Consultations; 18. Capturing the Microfoundations of Institutions: A Confessional Tale of the Glorified Field; 19. Five Ways of Seeing Events (in Anthropology and Organization Studies); 20. Tweeting the Marginalized Voices: A Netnographic Account; 21. What Are We Missing? Exploring Ethnographic Possibilities beyond MOS Conventions; 22. Why Does the Study of Alternative Organizations (So Badly) Need Anthropology?; 23. Crisis Ethnography: Emotions and Identity in Fieldwork during the Tunisian Revolution; 24. It Is Not That All Cultures Have Business, but That All Business Has Culture; 25. Ethnography and the Traffic in Pain; 26. Fieldwork in Work Worlds; 27. Withdrawal Pains and Gains: Exiting from the Field</p>