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almafu_9959328922902883
Format:
1 online resource (xxiii, 547 pages)
ISBN:
9781118325513
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1118325516
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9781118325537
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1118325532
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6613957003
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9786613957009
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1283644509
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9781283644501
Content:
The first comprehensive guide to anthropological studies of complex organizationsOffers the first comprehensive reference to the anthropological study of complex organizationsDetails how organizational theory and research in business has adopted anthropology's key concept of culture, inspiring new insights into organizational dynamics and developmentHighlights pioneering theoretical perspectives ranging from symbolic and semiotic approaches to neuroscientific frameworks for studying contemporary organizationsAddresses the comparative and cross-cultural dimens.
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Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Abstracts; Expanding the Field of Organizational Anthropology for the Twenty-first Century; PART I: Critique and Theory; CHAPTER 1: The Organization of Anthropology and Higher Education in the United States; Anthropology's Uneasy Relationship with the Industrialized World; An Organizational Anthropology of Higher Education; Economic Anthropology/Political Economy; Big Men; Disciplines and Professions; Marketizing Mixed Economies; Social Structure/Social Organization; Nature and Culture, Classification, Worldview.
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Taylorism as a WorldviewConclusion; Notes; References; CHAPTER 2: The Changing Rhetoric of Corporate Culture; "There's Nothing Wrong with the Corporate Culture Here"; M & A and the Struggle for Value; Cultural Collisions; Corporate Performance; IT and New Media -- An Industrial Revolution in Cultural Production; A Native-View Paradigm: Culture and HR; Flexible Accumulation and the Rationalization of Consciousness; Acknowledgment; Notes; References; CHAPTER 3: New Institutional Approaches to Formal Organizations; Introduction; Theoretical Background.
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Potential Contributions of Anthropology to New Institutional ResearchInstitutional Characteristics of Formal Organizations; Toward a New Institutional Anthropology; Actors; Interactions; Multiple Perspectives; Conclusion; Notes; References; CHAPTER 4: Entrepreneurship Studies; Introduction; The Direct Contribution of Social Anthropology to Our Understanding of Entrepreneurship; Potential Future Contribution of Social Anthropology; Alex Stewart -- Entrepreneurship and Family Business; Ana Maria Peredo: Community Studies, Indigenous and Sustainable Entrepreneurship.
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Countering Positivism-InterpretivismPeter Rosa: Countering Ethnocentrism in Entrepreneurship Research; The Firm as a Unit of Analysis?; Entrepreneurship Driven by Necessity?; D. Douglas Caulkins: High Technology Entrepreneurs, Methods, and Social Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Teaching Entrepreneurship; Practicing Social Entrepreneurship; Conclusion; Countering Ethnocentrism; Avoiding Overgeneralization; Notes; References; CHAPTER 5: Neurological Model of Organizational Culture; Introduction; Three Key Paradigms; Connectomics and New Human Brain Research Methodology.
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Imagination-ImagingNeurological Theory of Cultural Learning; Image Process and Meaning-Creation Inside the Brain; What Is Cultural Learning?; Implications for Organizational Studies; Network Theory; Ethnographic Case Study of a Retirement Party at MTC Company; Cognitive and Emotional Connectivity; Conclusion; Note; References; PART II: Methods and Analysis; CHAPTER 6: Social Networks and Organizations; Network Theory; Domains of Network Theorizing; Units of Analysis; Methodology; Data Collection; Visualization; Quantitative Analysis; Conclusion; Notes; References.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Companion to organizational anthropology. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012
Language:
English
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118325513
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118325513
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118325513
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