Inside Organizations: Anthropologists at Work.(Book Review)

David N. Gellner and Eric Hirsch, eds. Oxford: Berg, 2001. 271 pp. $68.00, cloth; $23.00, paper.

In recent years, the field of organization studies has shown increasing interest in an anthropological approach to the study of organizations. This began in the 1980s with the rise, spread, and popular acceptance of the concept of organizational culture and has been furthered by acknowledgment of the limits to positivism along with a warmer embrace of qualitative methods. The success of organizational ethnographies published in the academic and business press attests to their appeal. At the same time, anthropologists have increasingly turned their attention to Western, ...

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