Organizing: how to study it and how to write about it

Czarniawska, Barbara

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“…Starting with aspects related to observation, I also make evident that in the view of many authors (Bispo & Godoy, 2014;Czarniawska, 2008;Gherardi, 2012;Nicolini, 2009aNicolini, , 2009bNicolini, , 2013, it represents the major technical access to empirical data regarding a practice-based research. Observation in its various forms has contributed effectively in studies of practice because it allows the researcher to access the field and check while the constituent activities of practice are running or going in their naturalistic way.…”

Section: The Research On Practice and The Practice Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…That is, if they see the practice inside, it gives the researcher the condition to understand it from the logic of practitioners; while still seeing the practice from an impartial outside. This helps the researcher to fully capture features and activities that are not perceived by practitioners as well as see it more broadly (Czarniawska, 2008;Gherardi, 2012;Nicolini, 2009bNicolini, , 2013.…”

Section: The Research On Practice and The Practice Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Still, some authors have presented some methodological possibilities based on praxiology (Bourdieu 1977), shadowing (Czarniawska, 2008;Gherardi, 2012;Nicolini, 2009bNicolini, , 2013 and interview to the double (Nicolini, 2009a). The Bourdieu praxiology (1977) is a theoretical knowledge in the social world, from the idea of practice, with the intention that praxiology provides wider and deeper explanations of complex social processes.…”

Section: The Research On Practice and The Practice Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, it is possible to quote from Bourdieu (1977) with the idea of praxiology, Nicolini (2009aNicolini ( , 2009bNicolini ( , 2013 with the idea of shadowing, which is also supported by Gherardi (2012) and Czarniawska (2008), and Godoy (2012, 2014) with ethnomethodology.…”

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Methodological Reflections on Practice-Based Research in Organization Studies

Bispo

2015

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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This article aims to discuss methodological possibilities for empirical research on practice-based studies. From the small number of publications on research and methodological procedures on the study of practices, the text makes a rescue of the philosophical assumptions of practice theories, so it can further bring the discussion of how they influence in the form of access to and analysis of empirical data. It is, therefore, a theoretical text that seeks to present general guidelines to foster the development of specific methods for practice-based studies as its main contribution. Further, it discusses ways of collecting and analyzing empirical data from the practice lens perspective.

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Section: The Research On Practice and The Practice Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Research On Practice and The Practice Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Research On Practice and The Practice Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Methodological Reflections on Practice-Based Research in Organization Studies

Bispo

2015

BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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“…Secondly, there is increasing concern with the need to adapt ethnographic practice to meet the changing demands of studying contemporary organizing. As organizational life becomes increasingly fluid, flexible and fleet of foot (Brown-Saracino et al 2008;Czarniawska 2008) 'being there', in a traditional ethnographic sense, becomes more problematic. There is more than a suspicion that what has worked in the past is not necessarily going to provide a useful guide for future research projects (Dicks et al 2006).…”

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From “being there” to “being […] where?”: relocating ethnography

Pritchard

2011

Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal

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Purpose: Expands recent discussions of research practice in organizational ethnography through engaging in a reflexive examination of the ethnographer's situated identity work across different research spaces: academic, personal and the research site itself.Approach: Examines concerns with the traditional notion of 'being there' as it applies to ethnography in contemporary organization studies and, through a confessional account exploring my own experiences as a PhD student conducting ethnography, considers 'being ... where' using the analytic framework of situated identity work.Findings: Identifies both opportunities and challenges for organizational ethnographers facing the question of 'being ... where?' through highlighting the situated nature of researchers' identity work in, across and between different (material and virtual) research spaces.Practical implications: Provides researchers with prompts to examine their own situated identity work, which may prove particularly useful for novice researchers and their supervisors, while also identifying the potential for incorporating these ideas within organizational ethnography more broadly.Value: Offers situated identity work as a means to provide renewed analytic vigour to the confessional genre whilst highlighting new opportunities for reflexive and critical ethnographic research practice.

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Ethnography

Taylor¹

2017

The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication

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The term “ethnography” designates a particular methodological tradition in social and cultural research. Historically, it is associated with documentary and analytic practices developed by agents of the European powers between the 18th and 20th centuries, which supported their projects of imperial expansion and colonial administration. Methodologically speaking, ethnography is categorized as “qualitative,” in that it seeks to record, interpret, and explain human communication in the unique contexts of participants' local activities and their subjective meanings. Because organizations constitute both a principal agency and object of (post‐)modernity, they have proven to be rich and enduring contexts for ethnographic research. Nonetheless, the formal use of ethnographic methods to explain human organization has waxed and waned in popularity over the past hundred years. Organizational ethnography in the 21st century faces turbulence that will stimulate redefinition of the enterprise.

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Organizing: how to study it and how to write about it

Cited by 150 publications

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Methodological Reflections on Practice-Based Research in Organization Studies

Methodological Reflections on Practice-Based Research in Organization Studies

From “being there” to “being […] where?”: relocating ethnography

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