The shadow in organizational ethnography: Moving beyond shadowing to spect-acting

Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-133

  Gill, Rebecca ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurs; Gender; Organizational ethnography; Reflexivity; Shadowing; Social research; Spect acting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873654715     PISSN: 13555855     EISSN: 17584248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17465641111159116     Document Type: Article

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