TY - JOUR
T1 - Charting new territory for organizational ethnography: Insights from a team-based video ethnography of reinsurance trading in Lloyd’s of London
AU - Smets, Michael
AU - Burke, Gary T
AU - Jarzabkowski, Paula
AU - Spee, Andreas P
N1 - Copyright © 2014, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
PY - 2014/4/14
Y1 - 2014/4/14
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JOE-12-2012-0056/full/html
U2 - 10.1108/JOE-12-2012-0056
DO - 10.1108/JOE-12-2012-0056
M3 - Article
SN - 2046-6749
VL - 3
SP - 10
EP - 26
JO - Journal of Organizational Ethnography
JF - Journal of Organizational Ethnography
IS - 1
ER -