This paper describes some preliminary findings of an ethnographic inquiry into a steel mill purchased by its employees through a stock option scheme in the early 1980s to avoid closure by its parent company. A new company was formed with a broad of thirteen directors of whom three represented...

Among qualitative methods ethnography, which has its roots in anthropology and interpretive sociology, is recognized by an increasing number of researchers as an appropriate strategy for studying organizations. The method is also seen as offering the potential for new and additional insights...

Worker participation has been investigated by management and accounting researchers for many years but there is disagreement about both the process of participation and its impact. this paper argues that such equivocality is associated with inappropriate research methodology, research design...