Summary
Contents
In this volume, Schwartzman evaluates the range of ethnographic research that has been conducted on organizations. She also examines such important topics as: the roles and methods utilized by organizational ethnographers; the problems and prospects for conducting fieldwork in organizations; and the role that everyday but often overlooked routines - like meetings and story telling - play in the production and reproduction of organizations, institutions and society.
What Happened at Hawthorne?
What Happened at Hawthorne?
The Hawthorne researches started out as “hypothesis testing ” and in time became more “hypothesis generating” studies. As in terms of conventional procedures this progression looks like going backwards, we have tried to provide a logic for ...
