Julia C Gluesing
Biographic Data
| ID | 87680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia C Gluesing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gluesing |
| SIGNATURE | GLUESING J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4370-7191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Innovation in the Anthropological Perspective
Anthropological perspective
Dual Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article is an autobiographical account of COVID-19 from two juxtaposed perspectives reflecting the experiences of a mature anthropologist and a young, prospective anthropologist. The article presents reflections about both personal and work experiences during the pandemic as well as thoughts about how the future might unfold. The two narratives are a reminder of the importance of identity, partially shaped by both lifecycle and context, to o…
Linguistic sleuthing for innovators
For centuries “innovation” has been a topic of book authors and academic researchers as documented by Ngram and Google Scholar search results. In contrast, “innovators” have had substantially less attention in both the popular domain and the academic domain. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a text analysis research methodology to linguistically identify “innovators” and “non-innovators” using Hebert F. Crovitz’s 42 relational words. Spec…
Global Teams
Global teams have become a basic building block for organizing work that crosses geographic boundaries. They are an alternative to more traditional forms of hierarchy-based organizing and form the foundation of what is becoming known as the global networked organization. Global teams connect people who are geographically dispersed and work together on specific projects or tasks, crossing national, cultural, organizational, and linguistic boundari…
The Vision for the Future of Mobility
The automotive industry is going through a transformation. Disruptive technologies and tools are shifting the business model from one of automobiles to one of mobility. To accomplish this shift, automotive companies are embracing acquisitions and partnerships. In a time when the consumer electronics industry is delivering new products to market at a rapid rate, automotive manufacturers must identify ways of getting new products and features to cu…
Using Boundary Objects to Facilitate Culture Change and Integrate a Global Top Management Team
As business anthropologists, we are often called upon to work on organizational change initiatives as members of a change team. This article is the story of one organizational change initiative involving a global top management team in a healthcare division of a large multinational firm and the research that was used as the basis for implementing change in the top management team and subsequently in the division as a whole. Specifically, the arti…
Liminality, Anthropology, and the Global Organization
Turner described liminality as a 'realm of pure possibility' that can give rise to novel configurations of ideas within a ritual framework, while Bourdieu referred to liminality as a 'space of possibles.' One of the greatest challenges managers and their employees face in multinational enterprises that cross multiple boundaries is the increased complexity brought about by ambiguity, multiplicity, interdependence, and constant, rapid change. Worki…
Parochialism
Parochialism refers to an outlook that emphasizes a narrow or local perspective on living and working. International business scholarship is criticized for being parochial, for taking a western perspective and one, that is, narrowly defined by disciplinary boundaries. The trend for the future in both scholarship and international business competency is to be less parochial and more pluralistic, multidisciplinary, and multidimensional.
Cross‐Cultural Training
Cross‐cultural training is of interest to scholars and practitioners alike in this age of rapid globalization of business. While there is considerable research on the effectiveness of cross‐cultural training and the performance of expatriate managers, this research has had mixed results because of methodological flaws and the lack of a unifying theory. The increasing cross‐cultural interaction in the workplace, not only among expatriates but also…
Cultural Relativism
Cultural relativism is a philosophy, epistemology, and methodological concept that originated in anthropology in the early twentieth century. Cultural relativists take the position that each culture must be judged on its own terms according to its own framework and that culture mediates understanding and experiences of the world.
Ethical Considerations in Global Multi-Stakeholder Work Contexts
Economic integration and globalization has brought increasing ethical complexity into business anthropology as more anthropologists work in or research multinational enterprises that cross multiple boundaries. Ethical challenges arise from the predominant neoliberal viewpoint in these enterprises, the embeddedness of ethics in culture, and from intercultural nature of multi-stakeholder environments. Using an example of one research project in an …
Gluesing, Mobile Work, Mobile Lives
From Interviews to Social Network Analysis
This article describes the process of discovery used to convert interview data into a format readable into MultiNet for social network analysis. Based on the 2005 doctoral dissertation research of Willie McKether, the authors describe the steps used to collect and store interview data in Microsoft Word, the preparation process for exporting the interviews to ATLAS.ti for coding, the coding process, and the conversion path that allowed them to exp…
Conclusion
In this concluding chapter, we articulate four salient patterns that emerge from the contributors' eight narratives about mobile work and life: (1) the performance, presentation, and meaning of work, when activities are interwoven in personal, relational, and work spheres across contexts; (2) the multiplicity in identity and self-presentation; (3) the context and the decontextualization and recontextualization of meaning in changing spaces; and (…
Introduction
Many employees recognize that they are doing major amounts of professional work away from what might be considered their official workspace. Some knowledge workers are beginning to see a different world for themselves where work and home are allowed to blur and where periods of paid work alternate throughout the day with periods devoted to family and leisure. Because of rapid improvements in technology and changes in the global economy, worker mo…
Identity in a Virtual World
This article draws on personal experiences of remote work that is facilitated by virtual or on-line communication and collaboration technologies. This personal story illustrates how technology, work, and lifecycle coevolve and how the integration of work, family, and friends into the new, virtual workspaces can open up new conceptualizations of personal identity. An identity that is discretely bounded and that is dependent on physical surrounding…
Do you hear them working? Listening to, experimenting with and architecting work process
This EPIC2007 session draws our attention to ethnographic approaches for understanding work process in context. Each paper highlights ethnography's uses to promote new ways of working through experimentation and innovative design or architecture of work and work processes. The purpose of this introduction is to provoke discussion from multiple angles of the ethnographic approaches to work process described in these papers as well as to focus atte…
The contexts of knowing
The focus of this paper is cognitive convergence in a globally distributed team (GDT), defined as the process by which cognitive structures of distributed team members gradually become more similar over time. To explore the convergence process, we employed a longitudinal, ethnographic research strategy that allowed us to follow a naturally occurring GDT over a 14‐month period, producing a rich case study portraying factors and processes that infl…
Building Connections and Balancing Power in Global Teams
The contexts of knowing
The focus of this paper is cognitive convergence in a globally distributed team (GDT), defined as the process by which cognitive structures of distributed team members gradually become more similar over time. To explore the convergence process, we employed a longitudinal, ethnographic research strategy that allowed us to follow a naturally occurring GDT over a 14‐month period, producing a rich case study portraying factors and processes that infl…
Building Connections and Balancing Power in Global Teams
Identity in a Virtual World
This article draws on personal experiences of remote work that is facilitated by virtual or on-line communication and collaboration technologies. This personal story illustrates how technology, work, and lifecycle coevolve and how the integration of work, family, and friends into the new, virtual workspaces can open up new conceptualizations of personal identity. An identity that is discretely bounded and that is dependent on physical surrounding…
From Interviews to Social Network Analysis
This article describes the process of discovery used to convert interview data into a format readable into MultiNet for social network analysis. Based on the 2005 doctoral dissertation research of Willie McKether, the authors describe the steps used to collect and store interview data in Microsoft Word, the preparation process for exporting the interviews to ATLAS.ti for coding, the coding process, and the conversion path that allowed them to exp…
Conclusion
In this concluding chapter, we articulate four salient patterns that emerge from the contributors' eight narratives about mobile work and life: (1) the performance, presentation, and meaning of work, when activities are interwoven in personal, relational, and work spheres across contexts; (2) the multiplicity in identity and self-presentation; (3) the context and the decontextualization and recontextualization of meaning in changing spaces; and (…
Liminality, Anthropology, and the Global Organization
Turner described liminality as a 'realm of pure possibility' that can give rise to novel configurations of ideas within a ritual framework, while Bourdieu referred to liminality as a 'space of possibles.' One of the greatest challenges managers and their employees face in multinational enterprises that cross multiple boundaries is the increased complexity brought about by ambiguity, multiplicity, interdependence, and constant, rapid change. Worki…
Building Connections and Balancing Power in Global Teams
The contexts of knowing
The focus of this paper is cognitive convergence in a globally distributed team (GDT), defined as the process by which cognitive structures of distributed team members gradually become more similar over time. To explore the convergence process, we employed a longitudinal, ethnographic research strategy that allowed us to follow a naturally occurring GDT over a 14‐month period, producing a rich case study portraying factors and processes that infl…
Do you hear them working? Listening to, experimenting with and architecting work process
This EPIC2007 session draws our attention to ethnographic approaches for understanding work process in context. Each paper highlights ethnography's uses to promote new ways of working through experimentation and innovative design or architecture of work and work processes. The purpose of this introduction is to provoke discussion from multiple angles of the ethnographic approaches to work process described in these papers as well as to focus atte…
Conclusion
In this concluding chapter, we articulate four salient patterns that emerge from the contributors' eight narratives about mobile work and life: (1) the performance, presentation, and meaning of work, when activities are interwoven in personal, relational, and work spheres across contexts; (2) the multiplicity in identity and self-presentation; (3) the context and the decontextualization and recontextualization of meaning in changing spaces; and (…
Introduction
Many employees recognize that they are doing major amounts of professional work away from what might be considered their official workspace. Some knowledge workers are beginning to see a different world for themselves where work and home are allowed to blur and where periods of paid work alternate throughout the day with periods devoted to family and leisure. Because of rapid improvements in technology and changes in the global economy, worker mo…
Identity in a Virtual World
This article draws on personal experiences of remote work that is facilitated by virtual or on-line communication and collaboration technologies. This personal story illustrates how technology, work, and lifecycle coevolve and how the integration of work, family, and friends into the new, virtual workspaces can open up new conceptualizations of personal identity. An identity that is discretely bounded and that is dependent on physical surrounding…
Gluesing, Mobile Work, Mobile Lives
From Interviews to Social Network Analysis
This article describes the process of discovery used to convert interview data into a format readable into MultiNet for social network analysis. Based on the 2005 doctoral dissertation research of Willie McKether, the authors describe the steps used to collect and store interview data in Microsoft Word, the preparation process for exporting the interviews to ATLAS.ti for coding, the coding process, and the conversion path that allowed them to exp…
Ethical Considerations in Global Multi-Stakeholder Work Contexts
Economic integration and globalization has brought increasing ethical complexity into business anthropology as more anthropologists work in or research multinational enterprises that cross multiple boundaries. Ethical challenges arise from the predominant neoliberal viewpoint in these enterprises, the embeddedness of ethics in culture, and from intercultural nature of multi-stakeholder environments. Using an example of one research project in an …
Parochialism
Parochialism refers to an outlook that emphasizes a narrow or local perspective on living and working. International business scholarship is criticized for being parochial, for taking a western perspective and one, that is, narrowly defined by disciplinary boundaries. The trend for the future in both scholarship and international business competency is to be less parochial and more pluralistic, multidisciplinary, and multidimensional.
Cross‐Cultural Training
Cross‐cultural training is of interest to scholars and practitioners alike in this age of rapid globalization of business. While there is considerable research on the effectiveness of cross‐cultural training and the performance of expatriate managers, this research has had mixed results because of methodological flaws and the lack of a unifying theory. The increasing cross‐cultural interaction in the workplace, not only among expatriates but also…
Cultural Relativism
Cultural relativism is a philosophy, epistemology, and methodological concept that originated in anthropology in the early twentieth century. Cultural relativists take the position that each culture must be judged on its own terms according to its own framework and that culture mediates understanding and experiences of the world.
Liminality, Anthropology, and the Global Organization
Turner described liminality as a 'realm of pure possibility' that can give rise to novel configurations of ideas within a ritual framework, while Bourdieu referred to liminality as a 'space of possibles.' One of the greatest challenges managers and their employees face in multinational enterprises that cross multiple boundaries is the increased complexity brought about by ambiguity, multiplicity, interdependence, and constant, rapid change. Worki…
Using Boundary Objects to Facilitate Culture Change and Integrate a Global Top Management Team
As business anthropologists, we are often called upon to work on organizational change initiatives as members of a change team. This article is the story of one organizational change initiative involving a global top management team in a healthcare division of a large multinational firm and the research that was used as the basis for implementing change in the top management team and subsequently in the division as a whole. Specifically, the arti…
Global Teams
Global teams have become a basic building block for organizing work that crosses geographic boundaries. They are an alternative to more traditional forms of hierarchy-based organizing and form the foundation of what is becoming known as the global networked organization. Global teams connect people who are geographically dispersed and work together on specific projects or tasks, crossing national, cultural, organizational, and linguistic boundari…
The Vision for the Future of Mobility
The automotive industry is going through a transformation. Disruptive technologies and tools are shifting the business model from one of automobiles to one of mobility. To accomplish this shift, automotive companies are embracing acquisitions and partnerships. In a time when the consumer electronics industry is delivering new products to market at a rapid rate, automotive manufacturers must identify ways of getting new products and features to cu…
Linguistic sleuthing for innovators
For centuries “innovation” has been a topic of book authors and academic researchers as documented by Ngram and Google Scholar search results. In contrast, “innovators” have had substantially less attention in both the popular domain and the academic domain. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a text analysis research methodology to linguistically identify “innovators” and “non-innovators” using Hebert F. Crovitz’s 42 relational words. Spec…
Dual Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article is an autobiographical account of COVID-19 from two juxtaposed perspectives reflecting the experiences of a mature anthropologist and a young, prospective anthropologist. The article presents reflections about both personal and work experiences during the pandemic as well as thoughts about how the future might unfold. The two narratives are a reminder of the importance of identity, partially shaped by both lifecycle and context, to o…
Innovation in the Anthropological Perspective
Anthropological perspective
Computer Science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Knowledge management (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Context (archaeology (4 works)