Researching "back home": International management research as autoethnography

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 541-561

  Karra, Neri ^a   Phillips, Nelson ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Ethnography; Field research methods; Interviews; Participant observation

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649197075     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428106295496     Document Type: Article

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