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Book Reviews Inside at Work. Organizations: Anthropologists David N. and Eric eds. Oxford: 2001. Gellner Hirsch, Berg, $68.00, cloth; $23.00, pp. paper. In recent the field of studies has shown years, organization interest in an to the increasing anthropological approach of This in the 1980s with the study organizations. began rise, and of the of spread, popular acceptance concept organiza- tional culture and has been furthered of by acknowledgment the limits to with a warmer embrace of positivism along qual- itative methods. The success of organizational ethnographies in the academic and business attests to their published press At the same have time, appeal. anthropologists increasingly turned their attention to industrialized societies and Western, their institutions. This edited volume addresses these parallel trends to answer the "Can methods by seeking question, in devised and refined the of for the early days anthropology of non-industrial societies be as successful and reveal- study in the of in the industrial world?" ing study organizations (p. It consists of 11 to the and 1). chapters speaking delights pit- falls of research in a of set- ethnographic range organizational with an introduction the editors and afterword tings, along by John Van Maanen. Most of the authors of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Administrative Science Quarterly SAGE

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Freeman, Sarah J.
Administrative Science Quarterly , Volume 48 (1): 4 – Mar 1, 2003
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© 2003 Johnson Graduate School, Cornell University
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Inside at Work. Organizations: Anthropologists David N. and Eric eds. Oxford: 2001. Gellner Hirsch, Berg, $68.00, cloth; $23.00, pp. paper. In recent the field of studies has shown years, organization interest in an to the increasing anthropological approach of This in the 1980s with the study organizations. began rise, and of the of spread, popular acceptance concept organiza- tional culture and has been furthered of by acknowledgment the limits to with a warmer embrace of positivism along qual- itative methods. The success of organizational ethnographies in the academic and business attests to their published press At the same have time, appeal. anthropologists increasingly turned their attention to industrialized societies and Western, their institutions. This edited volume addresses these parallel trends to answer the "Can methods by seeking question, in devised and refined the of for the early days anthropology of non-industrial societies be as successful and reveal- study in the of in the industrial world?" ing study organizations (p. It consists of 11 to the and 1). chapters speaking delights pit- falls of research in a of set- ethnographic range organizational with an introduction the editors and afterword tings, along by John Van Maanen. Most of the authors of

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