J Krause-Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 14821 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Krause-Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Krause-Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | KRAUSE-JENSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5951-0086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Virtually Shamans
This article explores the emerging relationship between humans and AI chatbots through the anthropological lens of shamanic practice, proposing the concept of "virtually shamans" to understand these digital interactions. Drawing on ethnographic traditions of studying magic, spirituality, and technological mediation, we argue that AI chatbot users occupy a liminal position analogous to shamanic intermediaries, navigating between mundane human expe…
Inside Technology Organisations: Imaginaries of Digitalisation at Work
Flexible Firm
Bang & Olufsen, the famous Danish producer of high-end home electronics, is well known as an early exponent of value-based management: the idea that there should be consistency in what the organisation does, a certain continuity between what the company develops and sells, and the beliefs and practices of the employees. This study investigates how company values are communicated and the collective identity is articulated through the use of such c…
Bouncer service work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how new policies and standards to professionalise nightclub bouncing along with customer-oriented service imperatives affect bouncers’ work practices and identities. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork among Danish bouncers and uses the concept of “emotional labour” and related ideas of “interactive service work” to explore how service imperatives pl…
Trickster’s Triumph
Fieldwork in a Hall of Mirrors
An increasing number of anthropology graduates find employment in business organisations, often as culture experts or consultants drawing on ethnographic methods. In this paper I will use my fieldwork experience in the Human Resource Department of Bang & Olufsen to explore the borders and crossovers between anthropological research and anthropological consultancy. Fieldwork took place among human resource consultants (some of them with an anthrop…
Trump
Donald Trump's recent election victory has been greeted with horror and disbelief by many. In particular, the glaring inconsistencies and open self‐contradictions that marked his campaign should have rendered him unelectable by the standards of conventional reasonable political practice. But rather than being a problem to be explained away, it is Trump's open embrace of contradiction that explains much of his appeal. By holding contradictory tren…
Trimming the social body
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse through ethnographic fieldwork the social and cultural context and (unintended) consequences of introducing a management concept from the private sector (LEAN) into the public sector. Design/methodology/approach Ethnographic fieldwork combined with reading of reports and material. Findings The major findings are: first, Lean is seen in a cultural context, it is argued that the persuasiveness of Lean…
Organizational Culture, Anthropology of
Neoliberal turns in higher education
Over the past decades, higher education has been profoundly restructured across the world. With remarkable consistency educational reforms have been put forward that rest on a particular and similar rationale: to achieve global competitiveness and adapt to the advent of the so-called ‘knowledge economy’. The ramifications for universities have been dramatic: institutions have changed, roles of students and university employees have been re-define…
Responses to Ageeth Sluis and Elise Edwards, ‘Rethinking combined departments
The choice of interdisciplinarities Stephen M. Lyon Multidisciplinarity as a necessity and challenge: the Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague (FHS UK) Yasar Abu Ghosh, Pavel Himl, Tereza Stöckelová and Lucie Storchová Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Robert Gibb Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Jakob Krause-Jensen Response to Sluis …
Emotions in the Field
Davies, J. and D. Spencer. 2010. Emotions in the Field: the Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. xi, 276p. Emotions in the Field is an excel
Ideology at work
Over the past few decades, the ambition of establishing a 'corporate culture' has largely vanished from corporate agendas. Instead, resources and energy are spent on creating 'value-based' organizations. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Human Resources Department of Bang & Olufsen, a Danish producer of 'high-end' home electronics, I offer an explanation of this shift in managerial ideology from 'culture' to 'value' - I argue that much of th…
Values at Work
The Manchester School brought with it a fundamental methodological heritage that continues to be generally relevant today and may be particularly pertinent to the study of business organizations, a field often described by narrow instrumentalism and an implicitly management-centric perspective. In this article, through an ethnography of the Human Resource Department of the Danish firm Bang & Olufsen, I argue that the legacy of the Manchester Scho…
Seven birds with one magic bullet
At the Danish University School of Education we have experimented with a form of assessment called 'active participation'. A week before each class students are given reading guidelines and questions to help them approach the texts, and on the basis of one of those questions the students each write a two-page essay. The students are given electronic feedback on their essays (and might have to revise and resubmit them if they do not meet requireme…
Enquete
Enquete: Betragtninger om danskhed og jantelov
Trump
Donald Trump's recent election victory has been greeted with horror and disbelief by many. In particular, the glaring inconsistencies and open self‐contradictions that marked his campaign should have rendered him unelectable by the standards of conventional reasonable political practice. But rather than being a problem to be explained away, it is Trump's open embrace of contradiction that explains much of his appeal. By holding contradictory tren…
Ideology at work
Over the past few decades, the ambition of establishing a 'corporate culture' has largely vanished from corporate agendas. Instead, resources and energy are spent on creating 'value-based' organizations. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Human Resources Department of Bang & Olufsen, a Danish producer of 'high-end' home electronics, I offer an explanation of this shift in managerial ideology from 'culture' to 'value' - I argue that much of th…
Fieldwork in a Hall of Mirrors
An increasing number of anthropology graduates find employment in business organisations, often as culture experts or consultants drawing on ethnographic methods. In this paper I will use my fieldwork experience in the Human Resource Department of Bang & Olufsen to explore the borders and crossovers between anthropological research and anthropological consultancy. Fieldwork took place among human resource consultants (some of them with an anthrop…
Trimming the social body
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse through ethnographic fieldwork the social and cultural context and (unintended) consequences of introducing a management concept from the private sector (LEAN) into the public sector. Design/methodology/approach Ethnographic fieldwork combined with reading of reports and material. Findings The major findings are: first, Lean is seen in a cultural context, it is argued that the persuasiveness of Lean…
Emotions in the Field
Davies, J. and D. Spencer. 2010. Emotions in the Field: the Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. xi, 276p. Emotions in the Field is an excel
Enquete
Enquete: Betragtninger om danskhed og jantelov
Values at Work
The Manchester School brought with it a fundamental methodological heritage that continues to be generally relevant today and may be particularly pertinent to the study of business organizations, a field often described by narrow instrumentalism and an implicitly management-centric perspective. In this article, through an ethnography of the Human Resource Department of the Danish firm Bang & Olufsen, I argue that the legacy of the Manchester Scho…
Seven birds with one magic bullet
At the Danish University School of Education we have experimented with a form of assessment called 'active participation'. A week before each class students are given reading guidelines and questions to help them approach the texts, and on the basis of one of those questions the students each write a two-page essay. The students are given electronic feedback on their essays (and might have to revise and resubmit them if they do not meet requireme…
Ideology at work
Over the past few decades, the ambition of establishing a 'corporate culture' has largely vanished from corporate agendas. Instead, resources and energy are spent on creating 'value-based' organizations. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Human Resources Department of Bang & Olufsen, a Danish producer of 'high-end' home electronics, I offer an explanation of this shift in managerial ideology from 'culture' to 'value' - I argue that much of th…
Emotions in the Field
Davies, J. and D. Spencer. 2010. Emotions in the Field: the Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. xi, 276p. Emotions in the Field is an excel
Neoliberal turns in higher education
Over the past decades, higher education has been profoundly restructured across the world. With remarkable consistency educational reforms have been put forward that rest on a particular and similar rationale: to achieve global competitiveness and adapt to the advent of the so-called ‘knowledge economy’. The ramifications for universities have been dramatic: institutions have changed, roles of students and university employees have been re-define…
Responses to Ageeth Sluis and Elise Edwards, ‘Rethinking combined departments
The choice of interdisciplinarities Stephen M. Lyon Multidisciplinarity as a necessity and challenge: the Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague (FHS UK) Yasar Abu Ghosh, Pavel Himl, Tereza Stöckelová and Lucie Storchová Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Robert Gibb Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Jakob Krause-Jensen Response to Sluis …
Organizational Culture, Anthropology of
Fieldwork in a Hall of Mirrors
An increasing number of anthropology graduates find employment in business organisations, often as culture experts or consultants drawing on ethnographic methods. In this paper I will use my fieldwork experience in the Human Resource Department of Bang & Olufsen to explore the borders and crossovers between anthropological research and anthropological consultancy. Fieldwork took place among human resource consultants (some of them with an anthrop…
Trump
Donald Trump's recent election victory has been greeted with horror and disbelief by many. In particular, the glaring inconsistencies and open self‐contradictions that marked his campaign should have rendered him unelectable by the standards of conventional reasonable political practice. But rather than being a problem to be explained away, it is Trump's open embrace of contradiction that explains much of his appeal. By holding contradictory tren…
Trimming the social body
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse through ethnographic fieldwork the social and cultural context and (unintended) consequences of introducing a management concept from the private sector (LEAN) into the public sector. Design/methodology/approach Ethnographic fieldwork combined with reading of reports and material. Findings The major findings are: first, Lean is seen in a cultural context, it is argued that the persuasiveness of Lean…
Trickster’s Triumph
Bouncer service work
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how new policies and standards to professionalise nightclub bouncing along with customer-oriented service imperatives affect bouncers’ work practices and identities. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork among Danish bouncers and uses the concept of “emotional labour” and related ideas of “interactive service work” to explore how service imperatives pl…
Inside Technology Organisations: Imaginaries of Digitalisation at Work
Flexible Firm
Bang & Olufsen, the famous Danish producer of high-end home electronics, is well known as an early exponent of value-based management: the idea that there should be consistency in what the organisation does, a certain continuity between what the company develops and sells, and the beliefs and practices of the employees. This study investigates how company values are communicated and the collective identity is articulated through the use of such c…
Virtually Shamans
This article explores the emerging relationship between humans and AI chatbots through the anthropological lens of shamanic practice, proposing the concept of "virtually shamans" to understand these digital interactions. Drawing on ethnographic traditions of studying magic, spirituality, and technological mediation, we argue that AI chatbot users occupy a liminal position analogous to shamanic intermediaries, navigating between mundane human expe…
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