Organizational ethnography and methodological angst: Myths and challenges in the field

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 186-199

  Yanow, Dvora ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Organizations; Social anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960778657     PISSN: 13555855     EISSN: 17584248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17465640910978427     Document Type: Article

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