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organizational ethnography  

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  • Organizational ethnography (OE) refers to both a way of doing fieldwork in the everyday practices of organizations and the product of this fieldwork, that is, ethnographic writing. Fieldwork is long-term involvement with the people under study to attain an in-depth understanding of the ways they construct their world and give meaning to their lives. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Organizational Ethnography]

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