The author of this volume explains how and why the mysteries of complex formal organizations are best unravelled using ethnographic techniques. Her book draws on the themes developed by leading thinkers in organization theory, cultural anthropology and sociology, and describes a personal quest for methods of organizational analysis that will be of interest to all students and scholars concerned with the potential of qualitative research in organizational settings.
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Barbara Czarniawska was Professor of Management Studies at GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Doctor honoris causa at Stockholm School of Economics, Copenhagen Business School and Helsinki School of Economics, she was a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Royal Engineering Academy, the Royal Society of Art and Sciences in Gothenburg and Societas Scientiarum Finnica. Czarniawska took a feminist and constructionist perspective on organizing, recently exploring the connections between popular culture and practice of management, and the organization of the news production. She was interested in methodology, especially in techniques of fieldwork and in the application of narratology to organization studies.
Introduction in a Form of Self-Explanation
Complex Organizations
Looking for Definitions and Metaphors
Anthropology
The Original Sin and the New Sin
Organization Theory
Why Has it Parted Ways with Anthropology?
Ethnomethodology
Taking the Cover off Everyday Life
Political Anthropology
Antidote or Complement?
Organizational Culture
Toward an Anthropology of Complex Organizations
