Organizational ethnography between toolbox and world-making

Journal of Organizational Ethnography

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-42

  Yanow, Dvora ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Marked ethnography; Organizational ethnography; Organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958537092     PISSN: 20466749     EISSN: 20466757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/202466741211220633     Document Type: Article

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