{"title":"Fieldwork Report: The Making of Lonely Planet Guide - On the ground research for the Encounter Guide Amsterdam, published in 2009 by Lonely Planet, and written by Zora O’Neill","authors":"Ana Alacovska","doi":"10.22439/jba.v10i1.6319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v10i1.6319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123970172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Redivivus Issue","authors":"G. Urban, Nancy Ameen","doi":"10.22439/jba.v10i1.6320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v10i1.6320","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122269914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practice and the Theory of Practice. Rereading Certeau’s Practice of Everyday Life","authors":"H. Wild","doi":"10.22439/jba.v10i1.6336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v10i1.6336","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132030897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Field Report: An Academic Workshop","authors":"Louise Lyngfeldt Gorm Hansen","doi":"10.22439/jba.v10i1.6322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v10i1.6322","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127557392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crouching Standards, Hidden Morals: A Choreographed National Rebuttal of Cosmopolitan Designs","authors":"Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil","doi":"10.22439/jba.v10i1.6327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v10i1.6327","url":null,"abstract":"This case describes a sequence of events which started from allegations by non-government organizations of violations in the production unit of a global brand, and moved to (acrimonious) denials by the supplier and multinational buyers, failed negotiations, court cases, and judgments that crossed national boundaries. In the end, these events drew politicians and diplomats unwillingly into its vortex. The study shows how corporate actors, working from within a particular national space, can mobilize financial and emotional resources to align regulatory apparatuses of the state in their defence. The case also shows how global actors can be left in a no man’s land if they remain unaware of alliances being forged within national boundaries under a convenient smokescreen created by the confusion of roles and responsibilities to which they themselves may have contributed.","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122378215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. B. Albu, Frederik Larsen, H. Sigurdarson, K. Andersen, Louise Lyngfeldt Gorm Hansen
{"title":"What is Business Anthropology? An Ethnographic Study of an Explorative Workshop","authors":"O. B. Albu, Frederik Larsen, H. Sigurdarson, K. Andersen, Louise Lyngfeldt Gorm Hansen","doi":"10.22439/jba.v10i1.6328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v10i1.6328","url":null,"abstract":"The anthropology of organizations is always political; it might take place over shorter, as well as longer, time spans and in singular, pluralistic, or even virtual, settings. This paper addresses such issues by describing and analyzing fieldwork experiences of an academic workshop, which took place at the Copenhagen Business School in 2012 under the title of ‘The Business of Ethnography’. The purpose of the workshop was to create a forum in which to discuss business anthropology as an emerging field or sub-discipline of anthropology. The paper considers three conditions (reflexivity, familiarity, and temporality) which give the mise en abyme configuration of the field – the site where action happens – and pose significant challenges to contemporary business ethnographers. We argue that by acknowledging these three factors one can advance easier towards the ambitious goal of rendering organizational interactions intelligible and meaningful.","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123788526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century. By John B. Thompson Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010.","authors":"C. Childress","doi":"10.22439/jba.v10i1.6335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v10i1.6335","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126968271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Girls of the Factory: A year with the Garment Workers of Morocco. By M. Laetitia Cairoli. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011.","authors":"A. González-Vázquez","doi":"10.22439/jba.v10i1.6333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v10i1.6333","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121495097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Random Walk","authors":"Elisabeth Powell","doi":"10.22439/jba.v9i2.6133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v9i2.6133","url":null,"abstract":"Not one of the twenty anthropologists I interviewed had pursued anthropology as a path into business. In fact, none of them even knew that such a path existed upon starting their programs. Most hoped for tenure track professor positions. After all, why else would one get an advanced degree in anthropology? It is common sense that if you want to go into business, then you go to business school. Many were neither exposed nor encouraged by academia to explore a trajectory into business. Nonetheless, each of my “academic anthropologists” ultimately was employed in for-profit business contexts as an anthropologist. Referring to anthropologist Mary Butler’s concept of “a random walk” (Butler 2006), Susan Squires captured perfectly a theme that was pervasive across my interviews:","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125105889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extreme Users","authors":"Danielle Hildebrandt, Hanny Hindi","doi":"10.22439/jba.v9i2.6132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22439/jba.v9i2.6132","url":null,"abstract":"Qualitative segmentation is a blend of art and science. There are a variety of sampling methods researchers use to guarantee a pool of participants that is representative of their target market. But for innovation research, we suggest ignoring those squarely in the middle of your target market. Instead, look to extreme users who are indicative of the future. As William Gibson famously put it: “The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.” We believe that extreme users live where the future has already arrived. In addition, these users are more articulate about their problems or needs, and more likely to employ innovative workarounds and hacks. Extreme behaviors are powerful examples of human agency and the ability to challenge and transform dominant social structures. We will explore this framework with three case-study examples: Looking to transmen and transwomen for feminine care innovation, Hikikomori for future social spaces, and the Amish for clothing sustainability.","PeriodicalId":348499,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Anthropology","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126547972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}