Sub-theme 67: [hybrid] Whatever Happened to Organizational Anthropology? Past & Prospects
Convenors:
Michiel Verver, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Leonore van den Ende, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Heidi Dahles, University of Tasmania & Griffith University, Australia
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, D2.0.326
Mission & Future of Organizational Anthropology
Chair: Leonore van den Ende & Michiel Verver
Heidi Dahles
Organisations unsliced. The mission of anthropology in the study of organising
Ross Jackson and Brian Heath
Gaging corpus linguistically the past & prospects of anthropology in organization studies
Laurens Bakker
Teaching anthropology. Where does ‘organizational’ come in?
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, D2.0.326
Anthropological Key Concepts in Organizational Studies
Chair: Leonore van den Ende
Irene Skovgaard-Smith
Alterity in organisational life: Anthropological contributions to identity studies
Claire McKenzie
Liminality and careers: a dynamic temporal investigation
Anna Hinder
Lost & Found: Anthropology's problematic relationship with profit
Leonore van den Ende and Gazi Islam
Not your everyday practice: A theory of ritualization in organization studies
Session III: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, D2.0.326
Organizational Ethnography I
Chair: Heidi Dahles
Frans Kamsteeg and Harry Wels
Organisational ethnography after lockdown: ‘Walking with the trouble’
M. Dolores del Rio
Existential ethnography: What I learned about life while studying death – A confessional tale
Marko Orel
Workplace autoethnography: Exploring the place through aspects of the self
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, D2.0.326
Organizational Ethnography II
Chair: Mike Rowe
Marie Segares, Eda Sanchez-Persampieri and Katja Schroeder
A new paradigm of organizational anthropology: Leveraging design thinking and ethnography to improve DE&I in the workplace
Marjukka Klippi
Reality bites – Aiming to capture the essence of a corporation
Monique Boddington
Entrepreneurs as anthropologists: Conceptualizing the use of anthropology in entrepreneurial strategy formation
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, D2.0.326
Why Organizations Need Anthropologists
Chair: Michiel Verver & Leonore van den Ende
PANELISTS:
1. Mike Rowe, University of Liverpool, co-editor of the ‘Journal of Organisational Ethnography’
2. Laurens Bakker, University of Amsterdam, co-editor of “Anthropologists Wanted. Why Organizations Need Anthropology”, Amsterdam University Press, 2021
3. Dan Podjed, University of Ljubljana and Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, co-editor of “Why the World Needs Anthropologists”, Routledge, 2021
1. Mike Rowe, University of Liverpool, co-editor of the ‘Journal of Organisational Ethnography’
2. Laurens Bakker, University of Amsterdam, co-editor of “Anthropologists Wanted. Why Organizations Need Anthropology”, Amsterdam University Press, 2021
3. Dan Podjed, University of Ljubljana and Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, co-editor of “Why the World Needs Anthropologists”, Routledge, 2021
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, D2.0.326
Organizational Culture
Chair: Heidi Dahles
Stela Raytcheva
Culture as a nexus of social practices: Rehabilitation of “culture” in organizational theory through culturalist approaches
Michael Fehsenfeld, Helle Terkildsen Maindal and Viola Burau
Opening the ‘black box’ of organizational culture. A study of the production of ‘shared meaning’ in intersectoral coordination
in the healthcare sector through boundary objects
Yi Zhu
Culture change in a globalizing company: Organization as a political arena for ideology dissemination
Luca Carollo, Roberta Sferrazzo and Yuliya Shymko
A contribution to the analysis of cultural apocalypses in and around organizations
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, D2.0.326
Entrepreneurship Studies
Chair: Michiel Verver
Shuang L. Frost, Yuson Jung, Marlo Rencher and Dawn Batts
Remaking tech entrepreneurship
among Black female
Tobias Koellner
Family firms and business families in anthropological perspective
Evelina Sander, Michael Dick, Mareike Gerhardt, Carina Kröber and Michael Dick
Balance is balancing: Onboarding in small and medium-sized companies between polarities
Michiel Verver and Juliette Koning
An anthropological perspective on contextualizing entrepreneurship: The case of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in Southeast
Asia