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Urban gardens as inclusive green living rooms? Gardening activities in Gothenburg, across and within social divides 城市园林是包容性的绿色客厅?哥德堡的园艺活动,跨越和超越社会鸿沟
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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI: 10.1108/joe-10-2023-0057
Ylva Wallinder
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Organizational value streams as multiteam systems: an ethnographic case study 作为多团队系统的组织价值流:人种学案例研究
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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1108/joe-04-2024-0016
Erik Eduard Cremers, Petru Lucian Curșeu
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Failing forward: the transformative power of writing in interdisciplinary ethnographic research 向前失败:跨学科人种学研究中写作的变革力量
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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI: 10.1108/joe-01-2024-0005
Hanna Varvne, Mariana Andrei
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Activists and volunteers organising amid constraints: the key role of time 积极分子和志愿者在困难中组织起来:时间的关键作用
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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-05-21 DOI: 10.1108/joe-10-2022-0029
Simon Combes
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Glorifying and scapegoating narratives underlying activity-based workspaces in higher education 高等教育基于活动的工作空间背后的美化和替罪羊叙事
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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1108/joe-05-2023-0027
Bernadette Nooij, Claire van Teunenbroek, Christine Teelken, Marcel Veenswijk
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Navigating political minefields: applying frames of reference of the employment relation to access negotiations to workplace ethnographies 穿越政治雷区:将就业关系的参照框架应用于工作场所人种学谈判
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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1108/joe-01-2023-0005
Jana Stefan, Alison Hirst, Marco Guerci, Maria Laura Toraldo
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Data, disasters and disquietude in ethnography: learning by trial and error how to behave like a civil servant in Malawi 人种学中的数据、灾难和不安:在马拉维反复试验中学习如何表现得像一名公务员
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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1108/joe-09-2023-0051
Tanja D. Hendriks
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What is action ethnography? Reconsidering our intentions for impact in ethnographic practice 什么是行动民族志?重新考虑我们在民族志实践中发挥影响的意图
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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-04-23 DOI: 10.1108/joe-12-2023-0071
Joanne Vincett
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Unearthing narratives: an ethnographic lens on the organizational tapestry of massive iron ore mining operations 发掘叙事:以人种学视角观察大规模铁矿石开采的组织结构
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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1108/joe-12-2023-0070
Sonali Khatua, Manoranjan Dash, Padma Charan Mishra
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What comes around, goes around: how neo/normative control accidently enables its own resistance 有来就有去:新/规范控制如何意外地促成自身的反抗
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Journal of Organizational Ethnography Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1108/joe-04-2023-0011
Maria Krysfeldt, Jannick Friis Christensen, Thomas Burø
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