Charting new territory for organizational ethnography

Abstract

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Mindfulness in Action: Discovering How U.S. Navy Seals Build Capacity for Mindfulness in High-Reliability Organizations (HROs)

“…However, extant studies predominantly focus on the various characteristics, practices, and motivations of the websites' users rather than offering methods of analysis of the videos themselves (Adami, 2009;Soukup, 2014). Smets et al (2014) report important advantages in using video as an empirical data source such as allowing researchers to study individuals in their natural setting without being present thereby reducing the potential for observer bias and enhancing Table 3. Then, using an inductive research approach, similar to the coding process described in phase one, we identified video segments representing uncertainty and failure.…”

Phenomenology‐Based Ethnography for Management Studies and Organizational Analysis

“…For example, it can add to our understanding of how the increasing mobility of organizational members impacts their experience of, and relationship with, organizational space. Some organizational researchers (Smets et al ., ) suggest using team‐based ethnography to capture participants’ actions and experiences of fragmented organizations and organizational processes. Go‐along ethnography can add to this research by, for example, having researchers accompany ‘mobile workers’ or managers of large companies whose work schedules regularly include travels.…”

“…Organizational ethnography is continually subject to innovation in methodology. Such innovations are designed to support the investigation of the increasing complexity and fragmentation of the workplace (Smets et al ., ), of workers’ spatial practices (Raulet‐Croset and Borzeix, ) and of people's subjective experiences of organizations (Doloriert and Sambrook, ). They largely use methods derived from traditional ethnography that require researchers to immerse themselves in the field under scrutiny (Emerson, Fretz and Shaw, ).…”

Commentary on Mindfulness in Action: Discovering How U.S. Navy SEALs Build Capacity for Mindfulness in High-Reliability Organizations (HROs)

“…However, extant studies predominantly focus on the various characteristics, practices, and motivations of the websites' users rather than offering methods of analysis of the videos themselves (Adami, 2009;Soukup, 2014). Smets et al (2014) report important advantages in using video as an empirical data source such as allowing researchers to study individuals in their natural setting without being present thereby reducing the potential for observer bias and enhancing accessibility to hard-to-reach populations. Admittedly, the Navy videos used here were created from documentary-like footage for marketing purposes so the material available was not unbiased.…”