Charting new territory for organizational ethnography : Insights from a team-based video ethnography

Journal of Organizational Ethnography

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-26

  Smets, Michael ^a   Burke, Gary ^b   Jarzabkowski, Paula ^b   Spee, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Multi site; Team based ethnography; Video

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908574965     PISSN: 20466749     EISSN: 20466757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JOE-12-2012-0056     Document Type: Article

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