Organizational ethnography : studying the complexities of everyday life / edited by Sierk Ybema ... [et al.].

CONTENTS

PART 1: ETHNOGRAPHIC DOING AND WRITING

Getting going: organizing ethnographic fieldwork
Ethnographic practices: from 'writing-up ethnographic research' to 'writing ethnography'
reading and writing as method: in search of trustworthy texts
When the 'subject' and the 'researcher' speak together: co-producing organizational ethnography

PART II: FAMILIARITY AND 'STRANGER-NESS'

Making the familiar strange: a case for disengaged organizational ethnography
Zooming in and zooming out: a package of method and theory to study work practices
From participant observation to observant participation
At-home ethnography: struggling with closeness and closure

PART III: RESEARCHER-RESEARCHED RELATIONSHIPS
Lies from the field: ethical issues in organizational ethnography
'But I thought we were friends?' Life cycles and research relationships
Critical action research and organizational ethnography
Beyond complicity: A plea for engaged ethnography

Includes bibliographical references and index.