This paper traces and acknowledges the heretofore generally overlooked contributions that anthropology and anthropologists have made to the history of management thought. Particular attention is ...devoted to tracing the early anthropological roots, highlighting the contributions made to the Hawthorne studies, and featuring the work of William Foote Whyte.
Hardly any management theory nowadays fails to take culture's influence on today's organizations into account. At the very foundation lies the belief that the intercultural boundary can be determined ...externally--by etic view. In my paper I show how much emic organizational reality differs from etic view. Hereby, I refer to two years of fieldwork that I conducted in a global high-tech company at sites in Germany, Austria and India. I choose this approach to trace culture as an open process of sense-making in practice. Through interpretative anthropological means, I identified several discourses of collective identity that were constructed narratively--often regardless of the presumed etic border of "Germans" vs. "Indians." In summary, this paper makes the following contributions: Firstly, it shows how emic and etic categorizations of the cultural other can differ in a complex environment. Secondly, it looks in depth into the emic categorizations of "the Other" and how they are constructed narratively. Thirdly, it draws conclusions for the field of intercultural communication. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0901440
The spia who loved food [Book review] Bunzl, Natasha
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development,
11/2023, Letnik:
13, Številka:
1
Book Review, Journal Article
Recenzirano
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First paragraph: In 2012, for the first time, two of Slow Food’s major events shared a single space and ticket: The Salone del Gusto, a large commercial food fair, and Terra Madre, a political ...conference that brings together a worldwide network of small farmers, food producers, activists, and scholars dedicated to biodiversity and “participatory democracy.” In the penultimate chapter of Valeria Siniscalchi’s monograph Slow Food: The Economy and Politics of a Global Movement, she uses the relationship between these two simultaneous flagship events to explore a dichotomy that her entire book grapples with: is Slow Food more about “the market” or “the community”? “Competition” or “mutuality”? “Politics” or “economics” (p. 203)? Siniscalchi’s answer is that Slow Food, the international organization that encompasses an events team, a publishing house, a university, a national and international political structure, and more, is about all of the above. In the case of Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre, she argues that if at first these two events seem contradictory, they are actually “complementary spaces presenting ways to create new economic forms, to imagine a new economic order and to determine new food policies” (p. 204). Slow Food is thus hard to pin down, and Siniscalchi argues that anyone trying to do so misses the point: Slow Food contains “two visions with different approaches to the social reproduction of the movement” (p. 222) and the coexistence of these visions is the point. From the start, she is interested in exploring the “opacity of this object” (p. 1), and from her unique position of access, she is able to respect its unknowable quality while still bringing the inner dynamics to light. . . .
Access to all stages? Nyqvist, Anette
Organisational anthropology,
2013
Book Chapter
In this chapter, I describe and discuss access as an ongoing situational and relational process of ethnographic fieldwork. I have two interrelated goals for this chapter, both concerning processual ...aspects of accessibility. Based on various research projects on the performativity of policy in such diverse fields as national social insurance politics and the financial market, I begin by proposing a contextualised view of access. I argue that a culture of accessibility has evolved within the Swedish public administration system, such that access has become the norm and that access policies are organising principles that shape the way ‘we live, act and think’ (Shore & Wright 1997:i) – and not least do they affect the civil servants working within government authorities. I then discuss how a problematising perspective on access processes can help shed light on methodological aspects concerning forms of engagement with and within formal organisations. In doing this, I hope to contribute to a more complex and nuanced conceptualisation of access, a key concern of any ethnographic inquiry. After describing accessibility as a culture and organising principle, I stop to ask four questions. Access of what? Where? To whom? For what purpose? As we all know, access is not merely a matter of getting through the door.
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Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- So gut wie jede moderne Managementtheorie trägt dem Faktor Kultur Rechnung. Basis dieses Vorgehens ist die Annahme, dass die ...interkulturelle Grenze von außen – mittels der etischen Perspektive – definiert werden kann. Im meinem Artikel zeige ich auf, wie sehr sich die organisatorische Realität aus der Innensicht – also der emischen Perspektive auf Kultur – von den von außen angenommenen kulturellen Grenzen unterscheiden kann.
Hierbei beziehe ich mich auf eine zweijährige Feldforschung, die ich in einem global agierenden High-Tech-Unternehmen in Deutschland, Österreich und Indien durchgeführt habe. Den ethnografischen Ansatz habe ich gewählt, um Kultur als einem offenen Prozess des Sinnmachens in der Praxis nachzuspüren. Durch die gewählten interpretativen ethnologischen Ansätze konnte ich mehrere Diskurse kollektiver Identität im Feld identifizieren, die narrativ konstruiert wurden und oftmals die nationalkulturelle Dimension "Deutsche" vs. "Inder" nicht berührten.
Zusammenfassend leistet dieser Artikel die folgenden Beiträge: Erstens zeigt er auf, wie und in welchem Ausmaß sich emische und etische Kategorisierungen des kulturell Fremden in einem komplexen Umfeld unterscheiden können. Zweitens werden die emischen Kategorisierungen des "Anderen" und deren narrative Konstruktion in deren Tiefe beleuchtet. Drittens werden hieraus Ableitungen für das Feld der interkulturellen Kommunikation getroffen.- Hardly any management theory nowadays fails to take culture's influence on today's organizations into account. At the very foundation lies the belief that the intercultural boundary can be determined externally—by etic view. In my paper I show how much emic organizational reality differs from etic view. Hereby, I refer to two years of fieldwork that I conducted in a global high-tech company at sites in Germany, Austria and India. I choose this approach to trace culture as an open process of sense-making in practice. Through interpretative anthropological means, I identified several discourses of collective identity that were constructed narratively—often regardless of the presumed etic border of "Germans" vs. "Indians." In summary, this paper makes the following contributions: Firstly, it shows how emic and etic categorizations of the cultural other can differ in a complex environment. Secondly, it looks in depth into the emic categorizations of "the Other" and how they are constructed narratively. Thirdly, it draws conclusions for the field of intercultural communication.- Prácticamente todas las teorías modernas de gestión empresarial tienen en cuenta la influencia de la cultura sobre las organizaciones de hoy. Esta forma de pensar se basa en la suposición de que las fronteras interculturales pueden definirse desde afuera – a partir del punto de vista ético. En mi artículo voy a demostrar hasta qué punto la percepción interior de la realidad de la organización – o sea, el punto de vista émico – puede diferir de las fronteras culturales supuestas desde el exterior.
Me refiero a ello con dos años de estudio de campo que llevé a cabo en una empresa de alta tecnología, en emplazamientos en Alemania, Austria e India. He elegido este planteamiento para seguir la huella a la cultura como un proceso abierto de constitución de sentido en la práctica. A través de medidas interpretativas antropológicas, logré identificar en el campo varios discursos de identidad colectiva que se construían de manera narrativa y en muchos casos no tocaban la dimensión nacional cultural, "alemanes" vs. "indios".
En resumen, este artículo ofrece las siguientes contribuciones: En primer lugar, demuestra de que manera y en qué medida pueden diferir categorizaciones émicas y éticas de lo culturalmente extraño en un medio ambiente complejo. En segundo lugar, se examinan con profundidad las categorizaciones de "lo otro" y su construcción narrativa. En tercer lugar, se logran conclusiones para el campo de la comunicación intercultural.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana
In this introduction to the Special Issue, we review the rich tradition of ethnographic studies in organisation studies and critically examine the place of ethnography in organisation studies as ...practised in schools of business and management. Drawing on the findings of the articles published here, we reflect on the need for a significant extension of the content and syllabus of our discipline to include what we call objects of concern and objects of ignorance. The articles we publish show that decision makers in organizations are not always humans, and nor can we assume the human and its groups monopolise the capacity for agency in organisation. Where we still labour in organisation theory with dualisms such as structure or agent, or subject and object, these articles trace objects and their relations which point to new forms of non-human co-ordination and agency. The organisational realities to which these objects give rise demand careful methodological enquiry, and we show that recent experiments in a genre we call ‘post-reflexive ethnography’ are likely to prove helpful for developing ethnographic enquiry in contemporary organisation.
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