... be described as a global trend or a management fashion. It is this on-going process of change from a production to a shareholder perspective that has been called the process of financialization (Andersson et al., 2008 ; Arrighi, 2007 ; Forsberg, 2010 ; Froud et al., 2000, 2004 ; Krippner...

... ethnography in studies of management and organization. Findings – New forms of organizational ethnography have emerged in response to rapidly changing organizational environments and technological advances as well as the paradigmatic transformation of ethnography and ascendency of discursive...

... their bonus earnings. They “get on and get by” underground in order to cope with organisational constraints and management inefficiencies. Originality/value The paper highlights the limits of formal organisation of work and the significance of gold miners’ informal work strategy of making a plan...