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Close Encounters: Anthropologists in the Corporate Arena

Journal of Business Anthropology

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Title Close Encounters: Anthropologists in the Corporate Arena
 
Creator Cefkin, Melissa
 
Description The corporate encounter invites casting an anthropological gaze on the objects and practices of corporate worlds. This article delineates three perspectives of the anthropologist on this encounter: (1) with the things corporations make (products and services), (2) with the way they make them (acts of production), and (3) with organizational imperatives (corporate forms). This examination draws specifically on the work of those who operate from within the corporate arena by referencing papers from Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC). Corporate actors, in turn, seek more nuanced views on human experience and aim to exploit the “people” and “practices” dimensions of their existence and have turned to anthropologists in the process. A brief exploration of the hopes and disjuncture that help shape the encounter from the point of view of anthropologists’ interlocutors inside the corporation rounds out this examination of the anthropologists’ corporate encounter.
 
Publisher Copenhagen Business School
 
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Date 2012-05-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ej.lib.cbs.dk/index.php/jba/article/view/3548
 
Source Journal of Business Anthropology; Vol 1, No 1 (2012); pp. 91-117
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Language eng
 
Relation http://ej.lib.cbs.dk/index.php/jba/article/view/3548/3855