Simon Down
Biographic Data
| ID | 106011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Down |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Down |
| SIGNATURE | DOWN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3692-4200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Other side of ‘us’
How do we use the Other to make sense of who we are? A common assumption is that people positively affirm social identities by excluding an inferior Other. This article challenges that restricted notion by focusing on the variation and situational fluidity of alterity construction (othering) in identification work. Based on an ethnographic study of a change project in a public hospital, we examine how nurses, surgeons, medical secretaries, and ex…
Elite entrepreneurship education
The recent geographies of education literature have drawn attention to the role of elite business education in circulating new ideas. Our paper presents an ethnography based in North Korea to examine the introduction of an international business education for young generations of North Korean elites ('donjus'). Drawing on extant literature on translation, our study shows how the translation of entrepreneurial ideas between market-orientated econo…
Narratives of enterprise revisited
Purpose – This paper is the first in a series that reprints methodological appendices or methods chapters found in workplace and organisational ethnographic books, and provides an opportunity for reflection by the author through an introductory commentary. Simon Down, the author of Narratives of Enterprise (Down, 2006) reflects on the writing and the research underpinning his ethnography. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology…
Ageing and entrepreneurial preferences
A historiographical account of workplace and organizational ethnography
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to argue that the production of past workplace and organizational ethnographies needs to be better understood in their historical context.Design/methodology/approach- A programme of research work on the history of workplace and organizational ethnography is proposed, and a historiographical discussion outlines the purpose, scope and means by which such a project might be realised.Findings- The article highlig…
When the ‘Subject’ and the ‘Researcher’ Speak Together
Between narration and interaction
This article examines how frontline managers establish managerial identities. It combines narrational and Goffmanesque conceptions of managerial identity work in a longitudinal study of one first-line supervisor at a restructured Australian industrial plant. We argue that, singly, neither self-narration nor dramaturgical performance accounts for the practical discursive work that constructs managerial `identity'. We demonstrate that frontline man…
Generational Encounters and the Social Formation of Entrepreneurial Identity
Generational relations and entrepreneurialism in organizations are attracting increasing attention from organizational scholars. This article bridges these areas of interest, by examining how entrepreneurial identity is shaped by generational encounters within a small organization context. In so doing, it contributes to ongoing challenges to the scientistic orthodoxy regarding the formation of entrepreneurial persons. Evidence from an ethnographi…
The Return of Popular Social Science
(Yet) Another Side of HRM
Between narration and interaction
This article examines how frontline managers establish managerial identities. It combines narrational and Goffmanesque conceptions of managerial identity work in a longitudinal study of one first-line supervisor at a restructured Australian industrial plant. We argue that, singly, neither self-narration nor dramaturgical performance accounts for the practical discursive work that constructs managerial `identity'. We demonstrate that frontline man…
The Other side of ‘us’
How do we use the Other to make sense of who we are? A common assumption is that people positively affirm social identities by excluding an inferior Other. This article challenges that restricted notion by focusing on the variation and situational fluidity of alterity construction (othering) in identification work. Based on an ethnographic study of a change project in a public hospital, we examine how nurses, surgeons, medical secretaries, and ex…
A historiographical account of workplace and organizational ethnography
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to argue that the production of past workplace and organizational ethnographies needs to be better understood in their historical context.Design/methodology/approach- A programme of research work on the history of workplace and organizational ethnography is proposed, and a historiographical discussion outlines the purpose, scope and means by which such a project might be realised.Findings- The article highlig…
The Return of Popular Social Science
Elite entrepreneurship education
The recent geographies of education literature have drawn attention to the role of elite business education in circulating new ideas. Our paper presents an ethnography based in North Korea to examine the introduction of an international business education for young generations of North Korean elites ('donjus'). Drawing on extant literature on translation, our study shows how the translation of entrepreneurial ideas between market-orientated econo…
(Yet) Another Side of HRM
The Return of Popular Social Science
Generational Encounters and the Social Formation of Entrepreneurial Identity
Generational relations and entrepreneurialism in organizations are attracting increasing attention from organizational scholars. This article bridges these areas of interest, by examining how entrepreneurial identity is shaped by generational encounters within a small organization context. In so doing, it contributes to ongoing challenges to the scientistic orthodoxy regarding the formation of entrepreneurial persons. Evidence from an ethnographi…
When the ‘Subject’ and the ‘Researcher’ Speak Together
Between narration and interaction
This article examines how frontline managers establish managerial identities. It combines narrational and Goffmanesque conceptions of managerial identity work in a longitudinal study of one first-line supervisor at a restructured Australian industrial plant. We argue that, singly, neither self-narration nor dramaturgical performance accounts for the practical discursive work that constructs managerial `identity'. We demonstrate that frontline man…
A historiographical account of workplace and organizational ethnography
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to argue that the production of past workplace and organizational ethnographies needs to be better understood in their historical context.Design/methodology/approach- A programme of research work on the history of workplace and organizational ethnography is proposed, and a historiographical discussion outlines the purpose, scope and means by which such a project might be realised.Findings- The article highlig…
Ageing and entrepreneurial preferences
Narratives of enterprise revisited
Purpose – This paper is the first in a series that reprints methodological appendices or methods chapters found in workplace and organisational ethnographic books, and provides an opportunity for reflection by the author through an introductory commentary. Simon Down, the author of Narratives of Enterprise (Down, 2006) reflects on the writing and the research underpinning his ethnography. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology…
Elite entrepreneurship education
The recent geographies of education literature have drawn attention to the role of elite business education in circulating new ideas. Our paper presents an ethnography based in North Korea to examine the introduction of an international business education for young generations of North Korean elites ('donjus'). Drawing on extant literature on translation, our study shows how the translation of entrepreneurial ideas between market-orientated econo…
The Other side of ‘us’
How do we use the Other to make sense of who we are? A common assumption is that people positively affirm social identities by excluding an inferior Other. This article challenges that restricted notion by focusing on the variation and situational fluidity of alterity construction (othering) in identification work. Based on an ethnographic study of a change project in a public hospital, we examine how nurses, surgeons, medical secretaries, and ex…
Sociology (8 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (6 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)