Organizational Culture in a Wider Field: Is There a Post                    Post-Culture?

Linstead, Stephen

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“…In an update of Morgan and Smircich's (1980) framework for theoretical and methodological approaches in organization and management studies, Cunliffe (2010) noted that the growing pluralism of the field "has opened up possibilities for new ways of studying and theorizing the complexity of organizational life" (p. 2). Linstead (2011), citing Calas and Smircich (1999), recognized that "it is impossible not to read the world in a different way [y] but the challenge now [is] to engage with it in a different way" (p. 330). Czarniawska (2007Czarniawska ( , 2008 argues for developing a new repertoire of methods allowing researchers to access the intimacy and simultaneity of individual and group experiences of work.…”

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“…Barley and Kunda, 2001;Boje, , 2006Calas and Smircich, 1999;Van Maanen, 2006) and post post-culture (e.g. Linstead, 2011). Second, shadowing is a way to carry into practice the recognition that organization and management theory must " [renew] attention to work itself" and "study the actual labor that people do" (Ashcraft, 2007, p. 12; Barley and Kunda, 2001).…”

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The shadow in organizational ethnography: moving beyond shadowing to spect‐acting

Gill

2011

Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore the methodological practice of shadowing and its implications for ethnographic fieldwork. Furthermore, the paper challenges the label of "shadowing" and suggests a new label of "spect-acting." Design/methodology/approach -This paper is based in a feminist and interpretive-qualitative approach to methods, and uses the author's experience with shadowing as a case study. The author argues that fieldwork is always intersubjective and as such, the research site emerges out of the co-construction of the relationship between researcher and participant. Findings -The author argues that reflexivity is a required but neglected aspect of shadowing, and that spect-acting as a new term would require the researcher to take reflexivity more seriously, thereby opening up emancipatory possibilities in the field. Research limitations/implications -Findings are based on a limited time span of shadowing. Originality/value -The paper is original in that it imports "spect-acting" from performance studies into the organizational methods lexicon. The value of the paper is that it provides reflection and discussion of one-on-one ethnography, which is a relatively underutilized method in research on organizations and management (but beginning to grow in popularity).

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