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The anthropology of organisations
- Title
- The anthropology of organisations / edited by Alberto Corsín Jímenez.
- Publication
- Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jiménez, Alberto Corsín.
- Description
- xxxii, 567 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- The international library of essays in anthropology
- Uniform Title
- International library of essays in anthropology
- Alternative Title
- Anthropology of organizations
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I Human Relations. Methods for the study of human relations in industry / Burleigh B. Gardner and William Foote Whyte -- The perspectives of Elton Mayo / Reinhard Bendix and Lloyd H. Fisher -- The social structure of the restaurant / William Foote Whyte -- Part II Social and Political Relations. ' Banana time': job satisfaction and informal interaction / Donald F. Roy -- The politics of ritual secrecy / Abner Cohen -- Beyond account: the personal impact of police shootings / John van Maanan. -- Part III Productive and Power Relations. Anthropology of the multinational corporation / June Nash -- The production of possession: spirits and the multinational corporation in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong -- The culture of production: aesthetic choices and constraints in culinary work / Gary Alan Fine -- Factory, family and neighbourhood: the political economy of informal labour in Sheffield / Massimiliano Mollona -- Part IV Bureaucratic and Administrative Relations. Managing the managers / Melville Dalton -- Moral mazes: bureaucracy and managerial work / Robert Jackall -- Penetrability of administrative systems: political 'casework' and immigration inspections / Janet A. Gillboy -- The anthropology of power-wielding bureaucracies / Josiah M. Heyman -- Part V. Organizational Culture. Concepts of culture and organizational analysis / Linda Smircich -- A cultural theory of information bias in organizations / Michael Thompson and Aaron Wildavsky -- Part VI Anthropological Cultures. Methods. The fact of fiction in organizational ethnography / John van Maanen -- Persons and Places. Creating an ideal self: theories of selfhood and pedagogy at a Japanese ethics retreat / Dorinne K. Kondo -- The significance of meetings in an American mental health centre / Helen B. Schwartzman -- Theories. A classification of occupations and their associated fiddles / Gerald Mars -- Terrorism: a positive feedback game / Mary Douglas and Gerald Mars -- Part VII Anthropological Institutionalisations. Consuming, science: public knowledge and the dispersed politics of reception among museum visitors / Sharon Macdonald -- Part VIII Re-Institutionalisations of the Contemporary. Technological. Reconstructing technologies as social practice / Lucy Suchman, Jeanette Blomberg, Julian E. Orr and Randall Trigg -- Political. Is good policy unimplementable? Reflections on the ethnography of aid policy and practice / David Mosse -- The tyranny of transparency / Marilyn Strathern -- Work. Changing scripts at work: managers and professionals / Gideon Kunda and John van Maanen -- Working out personhood: notes on 'labour' and its anthropology / Alberto Corsín Jiménez -- Theoretical. On time, space, and action nets / Barbara Czarniawska -- Real time: unwinding technocratic and anthropological knowledge / Annelise Riles -- Name index.
- ISBN
- 9780754625957
- 0754625958
- LCCN
- 2007924365
- OCLC
- ocn122283669
- 122283669
- SCSB-1445226
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library