Purpose: This paper examines how a “quasi-formal” organisation in a developing country engages in informal means of organising and decision-making through the use of calculative measures. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents a case study of a large-scale indigenous manufacturing...

Purpose: First, the paper examines the short-term fiscal and budgetary responses of the South Asian governments to the COVID-19 pandemic. Next, it brings out the implications of such responses, focusing on India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on multiple...

This article is intended as a contribution to our understanding of what it means to gain and retain ‘social access’ in workplace ethnography, in particular examining the role of gossip. Several difficulties encountered in attempting to gain such access within a health care setting...

This paper makes the case for bringing empirical analysis to the heart of conceptual work about health care practice. Drawing on ethnographic observations in intensive care units in the UK, it identifies and analyses a mismatch between the practice of a particular health care specialty and its...