Journal of Organizational Ethnography
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Boundary work: a conceptual frame for workplace ethnographies in collaborative settings
Michael Fehsenfeld, Sofie Buch Mejsner, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Viola BurauInterprofessional collaboration and coordination are critical to developing solutions to complex problems, and many workplaces engage in coordination and collaboration across…
A duoethnography: female academics’ experiences of gendered health issues at the intersection of middlescence, ethnic origin, social and professional status in the neoliberal academy
Joanna Fox, Irine ManoGender inequality and age discrimination persist in the Higher Education (HE) sectors. The significance of gendered health at middlescence, including peri/menopause, is often…
Activists and volunteers organising amid constraints: the key role of time
Simon CombesThis article emphasises the role of constraints when humans establish organisations. Previous research explains organisations because of individuals’ motivations. Here, I answer…
Navigating political minefields: applying frames of reference of the employment relation to access negotiations to workplace ethnographies
Jana Stefan, Alison Hirst, Marco Guerci, Maria Laura ToraldoThis paper aims to help workplace ethnographers navigate and reflect on primary access negotiations by scrutinising two of the concepts mentioned in the call for papers on this…
Glorifying and scapegoating narratives underlying activity-based workspaces in higher education
Bernadette Nooij, Claire van Teunenbroek, Christine Teelken, Marcel VeenswijkOur study centered on activity-based workspaces (ABWs), unassigned open-plan configurations where users’ activities determine the workplace. These workspaces are conceived and…
Data, disasters and disquietude in ethnography: learning by trial and error how to behave like a civil servant in Malawi
Tanja D. HendriksIn this article, I answer the call to normalize and discuss how ethnographers navigate failure in the field by sharing my own experiences from long-term fieldwork in Malawi. I…
What is action ethnography? Reconsidering our intentions for impact in ethnographic practice
Joanne VincettThe purpose of this paper is to offer an accessible and interdisciplinary research strategy in organisational ethnography, called action ethnography, that acknowledges key…
Autoethnographic reflections on creating inclusive and collaborative virtual places for academic research
Cristina-Alexandra Trifan, Roxane de Waegh, Yunzi Zhang, Can-Seng OoiThis paper explores the collaborative dynamics and dimensions within a virtual multi-cultural and interdisciplinary workplace. The study focusses on the use of online…
Ethnography beyond the tribe: from immersion to “committed localism” in the study of relational work
Irene Skovgaard-SmithThe purpose of the paper is to propose a shift from the ideal of immersion to a practice of “committed localism” in the ethnographic study of relational work in the…
Autoethnography in the modern workplace: a reflexive journey
Marko OrelThis conceptual paper seeks to critically evaluate and illuminate the diverse autoethnographic methodologies that are pivotal for understanding the dynamics of contemporary…
Beyond methodology: unveiling multisited entrepreneurship
Bas Becker, Carel RoessinghMultisited ethnography has primarily been portrayed as a challenge for the following field-worker, with the researcher taking the central role and neglecting research participants…
The politics of smiling: the interplay of emotion, power and discourse in sensegiving and sensemaking
Yi ZhuThis research investigates the politics of smiling as a central driver for employees to navigate power dynamics within the prevailing discourse at a Japanese retailer in Hong…
Political sensitivity and autoethnography: a case on negotiating the personal political front
Yunzi ZhangThe paper introduces the autoethnography as a healing and everyday resistance strategy for marginalized voices. The focus is to deliver the author’s own reflections on some key…
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- Dr Harry Wels