1. Introduction -- 2. Comparative studies of risk perception : lessons and challenges -- 3. Risk perception and social anthropology : the contribution from cultural theory -- 4. Situated risk : culture and the management of uncertainty -- 5. Risk as organisational practice : a case of railway...

pt. 1. Studies of strategy, conflict, and branding in nonprofit and private organizations -- pt. 2. Knowledge organizations and studies of everyday work -- pt. 3. Public organization studies of management and collaborative innovation.

1. Integrating ethnographic consumer research using facet theory and the mapping sentence / Paul M.W. Hackett -- 2. Ethics in qualitative consumer research / Grant C. Aguirre and Michael R. Hyman -- 3. Recruitment and sampling in consumer research / Kathryn Roulston and Briana Martinez -- 4....

The past decade has seen a proliferation of suggestions for market-based solutions to global poverty. While research emphasizes that sustainability innovation aimed at poverty alleviation must be grounded in user needs, few studies demonstrate how to study the poor for purposes of early phase...

Ethnographic methods are applied to this investigation of the links between language and business culture found in letters exchanged in the 1880s, 1900s, 1930s, and 1940s among members of a long-lived family-owned business. The letters are contained in three sets of correspondence between three...

The objectivist truth claims traditionally pressed by most political scientists have made the use of ethnographic methods particularly fraught in the discipline. This article explores what ethnography as a method entails. It makes distinctions between positivist and interpretivist ethnographies...

In 1956 Susanne Rudolph and I arrived in India for the first of many research years there. We were among the second batch of Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellows. As area scholars we were committed to using ethnographic methods. We used political ethnography to explore India's...

With the democratization of information made possible by increasingly mobile and networked communications, political scientists have wondered if states around the world would experience waves of more participatory politics. Especially in authoritarian states, like those in the Muslim Middle...

This paper is an attempt to analyse the nature and extent of social exclusion across regions, ethno-linguistic groups and different professions in Pakistan. By using household level data of Pakistan Social and Living Standard Measurement Survey, we have constructed Social Exclusion Index as well...