...., 2018), I focus on the institutional work category of disruption and the potential use in the field as a complement to existing method options (Lawrence and Suddaby, 2006 , p. 238–246). Within observation centered methodologies, such as ethnography (Lok and De Rond, 2013) and organizational ethnography...

...@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Story Narratives Ethnography Sensemaking Storytelling Where else could they be juxtaposed except in the non‐place of language? (Foucault, 1970 , p. 9). Sensemaking in organizations often takes the form of stories or narratives (e.g...

... Organizational‐culture change Cultural applications Collaboration Organizational stories Ethnography Manufacturing industries Over a period of several years, we conducted anthropological fieldwork in a variety of manufacturing environments. We discovered a strong desire among all organizational...

... a metaphor of vagrancy to highlight consequences of the loss of ownership of space. Alison Hirst can be contacted at: alison.hirst@beds.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Employees behaviour Office management Space utilization Hot‐desking Ethnography Urban sociology...

... can be contacted at: Hans.Hansen@ttu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 United States of America Ethnonarrative Narratives Ethnography Change Death penalty Decision making The killer came into the room. The guards stopped short and closed the door behind him, locking...

... – that is, the process that involves frontline clinicians in designing, redesigning and flexibly enacting care processes. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents an account of a collaborative video‐ethnographic project with a multi‐disciplinary team in an acute spinal unit. Video‐ethnography was combined...

... organizational actors' work with accomplishing change and stability, which constitutes a comparatively underexplored line of inquiry in organizational institutionalism. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Organizational change Ethnography Sociology of work Anthropology The latest...

... action research, ethnography, and the ethnoventionist approach. The ethnoventionist approach is described by its central aspects: a focus on reflexivity, a management (but not managerialist) orientation, commitment to obtaining a deep understanding, connecting the multi‐layered context, and studying...

... of culture as entwined with those meanings and actions that generate a sense of allegiance with one group and difference from another: Acquisitions and mergers Organizational culture Ethnography While this section illustrates the salience of organizational culture under threat (Marks and Mirvis...

... the organization’s woes on the “tradition‐bound” culture of the agency, suggesting that the organization should change its ways (Cardona and Pollack, 1997). © MCB UP Limited 2002 History Organizational sociology Post‐modernism Ethnography Organizational structures and cultures change over...

.... Observations, ethnographic interviews and analysis of documents were the techniques employed. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Organizational change Resistance Small firms Ethnography Grounded theory Organizations are distinguished by their day‐to‐day competence: that set of rules, practices...