In this innovative volume, twelve leading scholar-practitioners from corporate research labs and independent consultancies tackle the most fundamental and contentious issues in corporate ethnography.

Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking - about what is left of the past, about temporality of humans and their material lives, about the processes of order and entropy, and about processes of creating, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. This title offers a window on this imaginative world of past and present.

Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking - about what is left of the past, about temporality of humans and their material lives, about the processes of order and entropy, and about processes of creating, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. This title offers a window on this imaginative world of past and present.

Guides the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. This book offers various techniques for gathering data on the self and shows how to transform this information into a study that looks for the connection with others present in a diverse world.

A practical guide providing researchers with a variety of data collection, analytic, and writing techniques to conduct collaborative autoethnography projects.

Weaving autoethnography, theoretical exposition, and a close examination of social trends, distinguished scholar Arthur P. Bochner shows how the theoretical paradigms in the human sciences have developed and changed over the past four decades.

A best selling methodology book for almost three decades, Do It Yourself Social Research helps researchers incorporate all other relevant stakeholders including clients, students, professional staff, community groups, and other novice researchers into the research process in a no-nonsense, hands-on fashion.

A guide to the theory and practice of conducting ethnographic research in corporate consumer environments. It is suitable for students, who are likely to both study and work in corporate environments.