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...

This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 2½ years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the ‘McDonaldisation’ or ‘Disneyization’ of society, but few have been attentive to...

The books presents the study undertaken by the ASEAN-India Centre (AIC) at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) on India’s cultural links with Southeast Asia, with particular reference to historical and contemporary dimensions. The book traces ancient trade and...

In this book, the functions and dynamics of enterprises are explained with the use of anthropological methods. The chapters are based on anthropological research that has continued mainly as an inter-university research project, which is named Keiei Jinruigaku, of the National Museum of...

How does one of the world’s biggest Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suppliers develop software? How do Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and Co really work? Christine Grimm presents a first-hand account of a social researcher who entered the software laboratory of one of the biggest ERP providers....

The Satisfied Customer in International Business -- Customer Satisfaction, Culture, and Personality -- The Structure of the Zone of Tolerance across Countries and Individuals -- The Confirmation/Disconfirmation-Paradigm in a Cross-Cultural Perspective.

Allgemeine Grundlagen -- Theoretische Erklärungsansätze zur den Marketingorientierungen -- Konzeptionelle Grundlagen des Wirkungsmodells -- Grundlagen der Datenanalyse -- Empirische Überprüfung und Analyse des Modells -- Schlussbetrachtung.

This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so, the book provides fresh...

This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past. While unfree labor may be lucrative for slaveholders, its negative effects on a country’s economy,...

1.Introduction Jürgen G. Backhaus -- 2.Sold SoldiersJürgen G. Backhaus -- 3.The Brandenburg TriangleGerhard Scheuerer -- 4.Some Short Thoughts on “The Economics of Slavery”Thomas Straubhaar -- 5.Emancipation of the peasantry in Lower AustriaGünther Chaloupek -- 6.Liberation of the Serfs -...