Sub-theme 32: Anthropology and Ethnography: Culture, Context, and Camera
Convenors:
Heidi Dahles, Dept. of Organization Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Heather Höpfl, Essex University Business School, UK
Juliette Koning, Dept. of Organizational Studies, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, Grand Hall – Hanken School of Economics
Conceptualizing Organizational Anthropology/Ethnography
Chair: Juliette Koning
Heidi Dahles
The anthropology of/in/for organizations? A position paper
Jana Costas and Christina Garsten
Towards a liminal approach to organizations: Theoretical and methodological implications
Benedicte Brogger, Hanne Heen and Maria Lundberg
Ethnography as critique – Going beyond universal truths
Discussant: Allen Bateau
Session II: Thursday, July 05, 11:00 to 12:30, Grand Hall – Hanken School of Economics
Visuals: Elicitation, Emotions, Gaze
Chair: Heidi Dahles
Heather Höpfl and Ricky Yuk-kwan Ng
Drawing the blind: Some thoughts on acts of reflection
Sylwia Ciuk
Narrating the visual: The case of narrative photo collages
Natasha Slutskaya and Alexander Simpson
Lessons from photoelicitation: Discovering on ugly emotions
Discussant: Juliette Koning
Session III: Thursday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30, Grand Hall – Hanken School of Economics
Anthropology and the Study of Business and Organizations
Chair: Heidi Dahles
Michiel Verver and Juliette Koning
Beyond the boundaries of business? An ethnographic approach to studying the embeddedness of entrepreneurship
Rachel Radmilli
Rethinking conceptual boundaries: When entrepreneurship meets family run business
Fabien Geledan
Images of the state. An ethnographic contribution to the study of culture in public management reform
Discussant: Heather Höpfl
Session IV: Friday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30, Grand Hall – Hanken School of Economics
Visual Methodology and Space
Chair: Heather Höpfl
Sarah Warnes and Marjana Johansson
A sense of space: Using visual ethnography to explore workers' reflective and interpretive understanding of organisational
space
Tuomo Peltonen
Using photography in the study of architecture and space: Mixing methods?
Aylin Kunter
Taking centre stage: Organisational change, aesthetics and the meaning of an office space
Discussant: Sylwia Ciuk
Session V: Friday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Grand Hall – Hanken School of Economics
Organizational Ethnography
Chair: Juliette Koning
Ad van Iterson, Grant Michelson and Kathryn Waddington
Taboos at work: The last frontier of organizational clture?
Jean-François Delplancke
A hybrid approach: Combining ethnography and history
Toke Bjerregaard and Marianne Storgaard
Design-as-practice: Ethnography in design
Discussant: Jeff Hearn
Session VI: Saturday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, Grand Hall – Hanken School of Economics
Culture: Formal Organizations, Public Management and Multiple Realities
Chair: Juliette Koning
Philippe Riot and Elen Riot
What if we lose a life? The role of culture in managing risk
Jeff Hearn, Hertta Niemi, Charlotta Niemistö and Teemu Tallberg
The search for "The Organization": Multiple organizational realities of work and well-being
Allen W. Batteau and Carolyn E. Psenka
Flexible rationalization and neoliberal world order
Discussant: Heidi Dahles
Session VII: Saturday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, Grand Hall – Hanken School of Economics
Visuals: Management Learning and Experiences
Chair: Heather Höpfl
Anneli Hujala, Kaija Kokkonen and Sanna Laulainen
Manager's dance: Visualizing managerial interaction through creative movement
Robert McMurray
Practical ethnography: Use of the ethnographic lens in management learning
Elen Riot and Hervé Colas
Mimesis and the role of management control
Discussant: Aylin Kunter