Charting new territory for organizational ethnography: Insights from a team-based video ethnography of reinsurance trading in Lloyd’s of London

Abstract

Increasing complexity, fragmentation, mobility, pace, and technological intermediation of organizational life make “being there” increasingly difficult. Where do ethnographers have to be, when, for how long, and with whom to “be there” and grasp the practices, norms, and values that make the situation meaningful to natives? These novel complexities call for new forms of organizational ethnography. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the above issues.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-12-2012-0056
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Marketing & Strategy
Additional Information: Copyright © 2014, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication ISSN: 2046-6749
Last Modified: 15 Jan 2024 08:20
Date Deposited: 05 Aug 2019 10:12
Full Text Link: http://openacce ... id/eprint/3989/
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2014-04-14
Authors: Smets, Michael
Burke, Gary T (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-1625-8095)
Jarzabkowski, Paula
Spee, Andreas P

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