The corporate encounter invites casting an anthropological gaze on the objects and practices of corporate worlds. This article delineates three perspectives of the anthropologist on this encounter: (1) with the things corporations make (products and services), (2) with the way they make them...

Die Hervorbringung von Kreativität in der Mode beruht auf einem komplexen Zusammenspiel verschiedener Bedingungen. Judith Nyfeler untersucht die daran beteiligten Akteure samt ihrer spezifischen Organisationsweisen (Routinen, Technologien, Projekte, Kooperationen) und sprachlichen...

Throughout modern business history, contract has been used as an organizational technology that holds counterparties in formal or legally binding agreements. The proliferation of contract prompted the emergence of professional contract managers who played an important but relatively peripheral...