Images of Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian E Orr (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 439-455 |
| Publication date | 1998-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/016224399802300405 |
| OpenAlex | W2063504692 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 15 |
The ways in which work gets done are observably different from the ways in which those in positions of responsibility talk about that work or from the ways in which the organizational and business literature portrays work. The ethnographic study of work focuses on work practice, on what is actually done, and on how those doing the work make sense of their practice, but this is rarely part of either corporate or organizational discourse about work This article tries to show what is missing from this discourse and suggests that the corporate model is based on a common misapprehension of the nature of technique and confounds the ways humans work with the ways machines work
Epistemology · Ethnography · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Engineering · Management and Organizational Studies
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |