Acknowledgements
Series Preface
1. Entries: Engaging Organisational Worlds - Christina Garsten and
Anette Nyqvist
Part I: Corporate Corridors
2. Counter Intelligence: The Contingencies of Clerkship at the
Epicentre of Convenience Culture - Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw
3. Counter-Espionage: Fieldwork among Culture Experts in Bang &
Olufsen - Jakob Krause-Jensen
4. When Life Goes to Work: Authenticity and Managerial Control in
the Contemporary Firm - Peter Fleming
5. Oblique Ethnography: Engaging Collaborative Complicity among
Globalised Corporate Managers - Emil A. Røyrvik
Part II: Policy Arenas
6. Access to all Stages?: Studying through Policy in a Culture of
Accessibility - Anette Nyqvist
7. Punctuated Entries: Doing Fieldwork in Policy Meetings in the
European Union - Renita Thedvall
8. The Instrumental Gaze: The Case of Public Sector Reorganisation
- Halvard Vike
Part III: Working the Network
9. All about Ties: Think Tanks and the Economy of Connections -
Christina Garsten
10. Working Connections, Helping Friends: Fieldwork, Organisations
and Cultural Styles - Brian Moeran
11. Messy Logic: Organisational Interactions and Joint Commitment
in Railway Planning - Åsa Boholm
Part IV: Opaque Worlds
12. The Profane Ethnographer: Fieldwork with a Secretive
Organisation - Lilith Mahmud
13. Communicative Nature of Money: Aligning Organisational
Anthropology with Technocratic Experiments - Douglas R. Holmes
14. Not Being There: The Power of Strategic Absence in
Organisational Anthropology - Tara A. Schwegler
15. Momentum: Pushing Ethnography Ahead - Christina Garsten and
Anette Nyqvist
Notes on Contributors
Index
Christina Garsten is Professor at the Department of Social
Anthropology at Stockholm University and Chair of the Stockholm
Centre for Organisational Research. She is the co-editor of
Organisational Anthropology (Pluto, 2014), Ethical Dilemmas in
Management Organizing (2009) and Transnational Accountability
(2008) and author of Workplace Vagabonds: Career and Community in
Changing Worlds of Work (2008).
Anette Nyqvist is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and holds a research
position at Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research. She is
the co-editor of Organisational Anthropology (Pluto, 2014) and the
author of Opening the Orange Envelope: Risk and Responsibility in
the Remaking of Sweden's National Pension System (2008).
'This excellent and timely book shows that the anthropological gaze
continues to shed light on all things human in surprising ways'
*Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of Oslo*
'This vital and vibrant collection is sure to appeal to graduate
students in anthropology and sociology as well as those in
organizational psychology. Highly Recommended.'
*CHOICE*
'Lively first hand accounts of carrying out ethnographic fieldwork
in contemporary organisational settings - from convenience stores
to high tech firms, from think tanks to advertising companies. This
is a work that will appeal not only to anthropologists but also to
all those with a scholarly or practical interest in culture and
organisation'
*John Van Maanen, Erwin Schell Professor of Organization Studies
atMIT, author of Tales of the Field*
'The engagement between organisation studies and anthropology is
both long standing and rapidly developing. In this fascinating
volume some of the leading exponents of organisational anthropology
reflect on its history and future directions; its potentials and
pitfalls'
*Christopher Grey, Professor of Organization Studies, Royal
Holloway, University of London.*
'An indispensable summary of contemporary organisational
anthropology, presenting methodological challenges, theoretical
discussion and insight into what it is like to embark on research
in this area'
*Rachel Jane Wile, UCL Institute of Education (London)*
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