... Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Institutional work Institutional theory Ethnomethodology Method Breaches Ethnography Institutional work theory, “the purposive action of individuals and organizations aimed at creating, maintaining...

... such conceptions. Gazi Islam can be contacted at: gislamster@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...

... Organizational‐culture change Cultural applications Collaboration Organizational stories Ethnography Manufacturing industries Organizations are continually in the process of change, with the hopes of becoming more productive, efficient, and effective in their mission. At General Motors (GM...

... 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...

... stories (such as corporate reports), or stories “captured” or “collected” during ethnographic observation or interviews. The job of narrative research is to describe “what it is like” in the organization by analyzing the narratives that constitute and represent them. Similar to ethnography's data...

... – 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...

... as a fertile methodological avenue for multi‐level studies of organizational actors' work with accomplishing change and stability amid broader institutional logics. Organizational change Ethnography Sociology of work Anthropology The latest attempt at conceptualizing agency in institutional...

... 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...

... Riad can be contacted at: Sally.Riad@vuw.ac.nz © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Acquisitions and mergers Organizational culture Ethnography The merger literature has consistently represented organizational culture as a force with which managers must contend...

... but accentuates Xerox’s poor and embarrassing past records. History Organizational sociology Post‐modernism Ethnography As already mentioned above, there are many reasons and agendas of why organizational histories are presented. These reasons and agendas are dependent on who are the presenters...

... as “revolutions” (Gersick, 1991; Ford and Ford, 1994; Romanelli and Tushman, 1994), or adaptively and continuously (Cyert and March, 1963; Miller and Friesen, 1980; Kraatz and Zajac, 1996). © MCB UP Limited 2002 Organizational change Resistance Small firms Ethnography Grounded theory...