Persuasive Encounters: Ethnography in the Corporation

Field Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 359-381

  Jordan, Brigitte ^a   Dalal, Brinda ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

corporate anthropology; ethnographic methods; work practice analysis; workscapes

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149143871     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X06292976     Document Type: Article

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