Organization and Management Theory OMT

All are welcome to join us for this year's Ethnography PDW at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. No pre-registration is required.

Theme: Being There/Being Them: The Intersection of Organizational and Occupational Ethnography

Panelists: Steve Barley (Stanford)

Lisa Cohen (McGill)

Emily Heaphy (Boston U)

Gerardo Okhuysen (UC Irvine)

This workshop seeks to explore new directions in ethnography by discussing how ethnographers address (or not) the intersection of occupational and organizational dynamics in their work. Most ethnographies focus either at the occupational or organizational level, without addressing the relationship between them. Thus, the particularities of how occupational and organizational dynamics shape one another are often absent in ethnographic accounts. We seek to encourage the exploration of this theme in current ethnographic projects by discussing various perspectives on addressing this interplay. Using an interactive format, the workshop will address two primary questions. First, conceptually and tactically, what are the challenges and opportunities associated with addressing both occupational and organizational dynamics in ethnography? Second, what might be the implications of those challenges and opportunities for the way ethnographers select settings, design research, as well as collect, analyze, and theorize their data?

Organizers: Michel Anteby (Harvard)

Julia DiBenigno (MIT)

Curtis Chan (Harvard)

Elizabeth Hansen (Harvard)