John Van Maanen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 115644 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Van Maanen |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Van Maanen |
| FIRMA | VAN MAANEN J |
| AFILIACIONES | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 892 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Afterword
This final chapter of this book suggests in broad terms what readers might take away from the preceding writings and what might be made of them all in terms of the promise and prospect of organizational ethnography. The chapters mix story and explanation with theory, critique, and advice but most tell, in some detail and with bite, about what it is like to be someone else. The natives of these tales are not, however, the alien and exotic others o…
Symbolism
Symbolism is defined and illustrated in semiotic terms and linked to a cultural perspective on management and organization. Attention is also given to how symbols are “decoded.”
Out of Control
Making culture visible
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to describe and reflect on the experience as corporate ethnographers working in (and for) a large, multinational company with a remit to study and articulate "the culture of the firm."Design/methodology/approach- The research relied heavily on interviews and some (participant) observation carried out periodically - in North America, Europe and Asia - over an eight-year period.Findings- The authors discuss how…
The present of things past
This article first provides something of an informal narrative of my own academic career and suggests just what is idiosyncratic to that narrative and what seems to me to be rather general. This is followed by a swift look at ethnography as a social practice and some of its defining features highlighting the relatively recent burgeoning of ethnographic studies in organizational research. The following sections examine what I think are exemplary e…
"Reclaiming "Anthropology
PurposeThis collection of commentaries on the reprinted 1987 article by Nancy C. Morey and Fred Luthans, "Anthropology: the forgotten behavioral science in management history", aims to reflect on the treatment of the history of anthropological work in organizational studies presented in the original article.Design/methodology/approachThe essays are invited and peer-reviewed contributions from scholars in organizational studies and anthropology.Fi…
Good Cops, Bad Cops
This is one hell of a book.Sweeping, energetic, lucid, rich in story and detail but sociologically informed and informing
Ethnography as Work: Some Rules of Engagement
Ethnography is both a methodological approach to and an analytic perspective on social research. It has a long history and pedigree in organization and management studies and well beyond. Perhaps the most distinctive features of ethnography are its pragmatic orientations and its written products. As a way of responding to Tony Watson's essay, I look at three constitutive (and overlapping) tasks – fieldwork, headwork, and textwork – as a way to sk…
Tales of the Field
Tales of the Field
The interplay between theory and method
This special issue contains six papers that address a variety of practical research process questions. The papers explore how theory and method inevitably interact in particular organization and management studies. Here we offer an overview of how theory and method have been treated to date by organization researchers and suggest that respecting both the primacy of theory and the primacy of evidence is no easy task but a necessary balancing pract…
Ethnography then and now
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review some of the compositional and orientational shifts that have occurred in ethnography during the last 20 years. Design/methodology/approach – Within the paper the author produces a series of reflections based upon his own experiences of writing ethnography, plus of reading the ethnographic accounts of others. Findings – Ethnography remains relatively free from technical jargon and high‐wire abstract…
Changing Scripts at Work
In this article, the authors explore how structural changes in the labor market for professional and managerial employees might be changing the nature of emotional labor required in these occupations. They first draw on ethnographic data in a firm noted for stable long-term employment to illustrate how efforts to create a corporate culture focus on shaping employees' emotional labor toward displays of loyalty and commitment to their employer. Thi…
Representation in Ethnography.
Crossroads Style as Theory
A small but significant portion of writing in the still expanding domain of organizational research and theory is devoted to debunking the essentialist and (allegedly) scientifically grounded ideas and programs of our peers. Some of my writing, including this effort, falls within this tradition. Debunking the would-be towers of power in our field bears a loose similarity to the work performed by voluntary firefighters. The fire of interest here i…
Representation in ethnography
The Flow of Culture
As this collection of essays suggests, organizational theorists are just getting around to the serious study of the MNC. As of yet they have not had much time for culture, but when culture does enter into the emerging representation of the MNC, it does so often as an all-purpose variable used to account for many of the problems faced by MNCs. Such firms by definition do business in different countries under vastly different conditions throughout …
Vinyl Leaves
Stalking woozles culture and context America and consumption distory Disney history at the Magic Kingdom more distory mostly EPCOT Center go east, young mouse let's make a deal marketing the Magic Mall the price is right Main Street USA and Hollywood Boulevard the grounds spatial infrastructure utopia and urban planning kungaloosh! the theme park world cinema, music, fantasy fantasyland and the Disney-MGM studios consumption and culture theory na…
Displacing Disney
Talking Culture
Escape from modernity
Tales of the Field
Great Moments in Ethnography
Patterns of Policing
Where Policy Studies Go Wrong
Public policies are raw resources. They can be put to practical use in ways that offend those who initially created them. Policy research sometimes takes the perspective of the offended without giving due regard to the perspective of the offenders. The conceptual and practical limitations of such an approach are illustrated in this article. The contextual example concerns policy research on the so-called chilling and addiction problems of collect…
Tales of the Field
Observations on the Making of Policemen
The process of organizational socialization is examined in a large, urban police department.This interpenetration and eventual fusion by which persons acquire the motives, sentiments and behavioral patterns of the occupational culture is viewed from the perspective
Representation in ethnography
Changing Scripts at Work
In this article, the authors explore how structural changes in the labor market for professional and managerial employees might be changing the nature of emotional labor required in these occupations. They first draw on ethnographic data in a firm noted for stable long-term employment to illustrate how efforts to create a corporate culture focus on shaping employees' emotional labor toward displays of loyalty and commitment to their employer. Thi…
Ethnography then and now
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review some of the compositional and orientational shifts that have occurred in ethnography during the last 20 years. Design/methodology/approach – Within the paper the author produces a series of reflections based upon his own experiences of writing ethnography, plus of reading the ethnographic accounts of others. Findings – Ethnography remains relatively free from technical jargon and high‐wire abstract…
Displacing Disney
Making Rank
Drawing upon field research carried out in the police force of an American city, this study examines the deep, recurrent organizational tension between the street culture of policing, epitomized by the so-called "patrolman's mentality," and the administrative culture of the police hierarchy, as this tension is reflected in the processes of becoming a sergeant. Sergeants are selected from among the patrol ranks by procedures that favor administrat…
The Loci of Work Satisfaction
Three thousand five hundred subjects from four governmental organizations (two municipalities, one county, and one state) were interviewed to investigate the nature ofjob satisfaction in the public sector. The intent of the study is to examine the relationships between components of satisfaction and various conceptually objective design variables of the work environment including characteristics of the assigned tasks, work assistance, pay, promot…
Beyond Account
The aftermath of a police shooting is a messy matter. The consequences of a shooting are felt and acted upon at several levels within police organizations. Official, col legial, and individual versions of a particular shooting often contrast in both form—external/intemal/private—and con tent—representation/symbol/feeling. Based on one's commit ment to the police role and one's social position within a department, an officer will attempt to build …
The present of things past
This article first provides something of an informal narrative of my own academic career and suggests just what is idiosyncratic to that narrative and what seems to me to be rather general. This is followed by a swift look at ethnography as a social practice and some of its defining features highlighting the relatively recent burgeoning of ethnographic studies in organizational research. The following sections examine what I think are exemplary e…
Tales of the Field
Getting Into Fishing
Fishing as an occupation is typically regarded as a most traditional trade. The work culture associated with fishing is seen to be homogeneous and stable, membership being gained primarily through kinship ties. This article questions such a depiction and suggests the current visibility of 'nontraditional' types of fishermen increasingly active in what we call the fishing scene of New England A taxonomy of nontraditional fishermen is presented bas…
Boats Don't Fish, People Do
The Informant Game
An Occupation in Transition
This study examines certain changes taking place within the occupational world of commercial fishermen in the United States. An ethnographic description of fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska, is provided. This fishery is regarded as an exemplar of 'modern' fishing and is shown to contrast sharply with 'traditional' fishing. Some of the more critical social and economic features of fishing as an occupation are translated into analytic variables for co…
Making culture visible
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to describe and reflect on the experience as corporate ethnographers working in (and for) a large, multinational company with a remit to study and articulate "the culture of the firm."Design/methodology/approach- The research relied heavily on interviews and some (participant) observation carried out periodically - in North America, Europe and Asia - over an eight-year period.Findings- The authors discuss how…
Before the Flood
Escape from modernity
Great Moments in Ethnography
Where Policy Studies Go Wrong
Public policies are raw resources. They can be put to practical use in ways that offend those who initially created them. Policy research sometimes takes the perspective of the offended without giving due regard to the perspective of the offenders. The conceptual and practical limitations of such an approach are illustrated in this article. The contextual example concerns policy research on the so-called chilling and addiction problems of collect…
"Reclaiming "Anthropology
PurposeThis collection of commentaries on the reprinted 1987 article by Nancy C. Morey and Fred Luthans, "Anthropology: the forgotten behavioral science in management history", aims to reflect on the treatment of the history of anthropological work in organizational studies presented in the original article.Design/methodology/approachThe essays are invited and peer-reviewed contributions from scholars in organizational studies and anthropology.Fi…
Vinyl Leaves
Stalking woozles culture and context America and consumption distory Disney history at the Magic Kingdom more distory mostly EPCOT Center go east, young mouse let's make a deal marketing the Magic Mall the price is right Main Street USA and Hollywood Boulevard the grounds spatial infrastructure utopia and urban planning kungaloosh! the theme park world cinema, music, fantasy fantasyland and the Disney-MGM studios consumption and culture theory na…
Two Cultures of Policing
The Realities of Education as a Prescription for Organizational Change
Observations on the Making of Policemen
The process of organizational socialization is examined in a large, urban police department.This interpenetration and eventual fusion by which persons acquire the motives, sentiments and behavioral patterns of the occupational culture is viewed from the perspective
The Loci of Work Satisfaction
Three thousand five hundred subjects from four governmental organizations (two municipalities, one county, and one state) were interviewed to investigate the nature ofjob satisfaction in the public sector. The intent of the study is to examine the relationships between components of satisfaction and various conceptually objective design variables of the work environment including characteristics of the assigned tasks, work assistance, pay, promot…
Police Perceptions of their Work Environment
Studies of early career experiences consistently emphasize the importance of initial socialization. During this process, employees build and revise their perceptions of their job environment. Using a multidimensional scaling methodology, the collective and individual perceptual responses of 130 patrolmen regarding various aspects of their work setting were represented on a two-dimensional configuration. Two major questions were then addressed: (]…
Boats Don't Fish, People Do
Beyond Account
The aftermath of a police shooting is a messy matter. The consequences of a shooting are felt and acted upon at several levels within police organizations. Official, col legial, and individual versions of a particular shooting often contrast in both form—external/intemal/private—and con tent—representation/symbol/feeling. Based on one's commit ment to the police role and one's social position within a department, an officer will attempt to build …
The Informant Game
Getting Into Fishing
Fishing as an occupation is typically regarded as a most traditional trade. The work culture associated with fishing is seen to be homogeneous and stable, membership being gained primarily through kinship ties. This article questions such a depiction and suggests the current visibility of 'nontraditional' types of fishermen increasingly active in what we call the fishing scene of New England A taxonomy of nontraditional fishermen is presented bas…
An Occupation in Transition
This study examines certain changes taking place within the occupational world of commercial fishermen in the United States. An ethnographic description of fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska, is provided. This fishery is regarded as an exemplar of 'modern' fishing and is shown to contrast sharply with 'traditional' fishing. Some of the more critical social and economic features of fishing as an occupation are translated into analytic variables for co…
New Ethnographies
New Ethnographies
Two Cultures of Policing
Making Rank
Drawing upon field research carried out in the police force of an American city, this study examines the deep, recurrent organizational tension between the street culture of policing, epitomized by the so-called "patrolman's mentality," and the administrative culture of the police hierarchy, as this tension is reflected in the processes of becoming a sergeant. Sergeants are selected from among the patrol ranks by procedures that favor administrat…
Before the Flood
Where Policy Studies Go Wrong
Public policies are raw resources. They can be put to practical use in ways that offend those who initially created them. Policy research sometimes takes the perspective of the offended without giving due regard to the perspective of the offenders. The conceptual and practical limitations of such an approach are illustrated in this article. The contextual example concerns policy research on the so-called chilling and addiction problems of collect…
Patterns of Policing
Talking Culture
Escape from modernity
Tales of the Field
Great Moments in Ethnography
Displacing Disney
The Flow of Culture
As this collection of essays suggests, organizational theorists are just getting around to the serious study of the MNC. As of yet they have not had much time for culture, but when culture does enter into the emerging representation of the MNC, it does so often as an all-purpose variable used to account for many of the problems faced by MNCs. Such firms by definition do business in different countries under vastly different conditions throughout …
Vinyl Leaves
Stalking woozles culture and context America and consumption distory Disney history at the Magic Kingdom more distory mostly EPCOT Center go east, young mouse let's make a deal marketing the Magic Mall the price is right Main Street USA and Hollywood Boulevard the grounds spatial infrastructure utopia and urban planning kungaloosh! the theme park world cinema, music, fantasy fantasyland and the Disney-MGM studios consumption and culture theory na…
Crossroads Style as Theory
A small but significant portion of writing in the still expanding domain of organizational research and theory is devoted to debunking the essentialist and (allegedly) scientifically grounded ideas and programs of our peers. Some of my writing, including this effort, falls within this tradition. Debunking the would-be towers of power in our field bears a loose similarity to the work performed by voluntary firefighters. The fire of interest here i…
Representation in ethnography
Sociology (25 obras) · Anthropology (15 obras) · Ethnography (14 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Management and Organizational Studies (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Art (6 obras)