As a method for empirical inquiry, autoethnography has gained much purchase among business school academics. This book offers exemplars of how autoethnography can be leveraged to study myriad organization and management phenomena. Drawing on his own fieldwork in Palestine, the author engages...

Chapter 1. Defining Religion -- Chapter 2. An Illusion, A Capability, A Tendency; Formation of Groups and the Encounter with Gods -- Chapter 3. Exchange with Nature and with Gods: License to Exploit -- Chapter 4. Exchange amongst Humans; Divine Supervision -- Chapter 5. Exchange amongst Humans:...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book takes a taxpayer's perspective to the relations taxation creates between people and their state. Larsen proposes that in order to understand tax compliance and cheating, we have to look beyond law, psychological experiments and...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Rural marginality and its development -- Chapter 2: Food festivals and the Italian foodscape -- Chapter 3: Food festivals as identity devices -- Chapter 4: Food festivals as political devices -- Chapter 5: Food festivals as economic devices -- Chapter 6: Conclusions:...

Menschenbilder aus Antike und Neuzeit -- Menschenbilder in den modernen Wissenschaften -- Der Konsument als neue soziokulturelle Leitfigur -- Der souveräne, der naive und der aktive Konsument -- Extended Case Method und Mobile Ethnographie

Part I. Myths and realities of management -- 1. Is there a link between corporate culture and profit? -- 2. Different ways of understanding an organization -- 3. What are companies for -- Part II. In search of purpose -- 4. Cultural problems today -- 5.The missions of a company -- 6. The values...

Dieses Fachbuch untersucht anhand einer eigenen Studie sowie Gastbeiträgen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis den Arbeitsraum als dynamisches Bezugssystem zwischen Menschen, Objekten, Orten, Aufgaben und Funktionen. Ausgehend von einem Raumverständnis als soziale Konstruktion wird im Buch ein neues...

Matrixorganisation – Definition und Historie -- Grundlagen der Matrixorganisation -- Design der Matrixorganisation -- Rollen in der Matrixorganisation: Das Rollenkonzept -- Zusammenarbeit – gemeinsame Verpflichtung -- Führung als System und Haltung in einer Matrixorganisation -- Kultur und...

1. Digital Leadership in the Agile World and the Present of Change Management -- 2. What We (Can and Should) Know About Emotions Today -- 3. Emotions and Organizational Culture -- 4. Emotions and Agile Change -- 5. Concepts and Instruments for Dealing with Emotions -- 6. Conclusion.