Organisational Anthropology

Christina Garsten is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and Chair of the Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research. She is the co-editor of Organisational Anthropology (Pluto, 2014), Ethical Dilemmas in Management Organizing (2009) and Transnational Accountability (2008) and author of Workplace Vagabonds: Career and Community in Changing Worlds of Work (2008).Anette Nyqvist is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and holds a research position at Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research. She is the co-editor of Organisational Anthropology (Pluto, 2014) and the author of Opening the Orange Envelope: Risk and Responsibility in the Remaking of Sweden's National Pension System (2008).

'This excellent and timely book shows that the anthropological gaze continues to shed light on all things human in surprising ways'

• AcknowledgementsSeries Preface1. Entries: Engaging Organisational Worlds - Christina Garsten and Anette NyqvistPart I: Corporate Corridors2. Counter Intelligence: The Contingencies of Clerkship at the Epicentre of Convenience Culture - Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw 3. Counter-Espionage: Fieldwork among Culture Experts in Bang & Olufsen - Jakob Krause-Jensen 4. When Life Goes to Work: Authenticity and Managerial Control in the Contemporary Firm - Peter Fleming 5. Oblique Ethnography: Engaging Collaborative Complicity among Globalised Corporate Managers - Emil A. Røyrvik Part II: Policy Arenas6. Access to all Stages?: Studying through Policy in a Culture of Accessibility - Anette Nyqvist 7. Punctuated Entries: Doing Fieldwork in Policy Meetings in the European Union - Renita Thedvall 8. The Instrumental Gaze: The Case of Public Sector Reorganisation - Halvard Vike Part III: Working the Network9. All about Ties: Think Tanks and the Economy of Connections - Christina Garsten 10. Working Connections, Helping Friends: Fieldwork, Organisations and Cultural Styles - Brian Moeran 11. Messy Logic: Organisational Interactions and Joint Commitment in Railway Planning - Åsa Boholm Part IV: Opaque Worlds12. The Profane Ethnographer: Fieldwork with a Secretive Organisation - Lilith Mahmud 13. Communicative Nature of Money: Aligning Organisational Anthropology with Technocratic Experiments - Douglas R. Holmes 14. Not Being There: The Power of Strategic Absence in Organisational Anthropology - Tara A. Schwegler 15. Momentum: Pushing Ethnography Ahead - Christina Garsten and Anette Nyqvist Notes on ContributorsIndex