Making organisational ethnography

Journal of Organizational Ethnography

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-22

  Watson, Tony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Everyday life; Fiction; Field research; Grounded research; Organizational ethnography; Organizations; Organizations and society; Social sciences; Society

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895900516     PISSN: 20466749     EISSN: 20466757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/20466741211220615     Document Type: Article

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