Department of Management

 

Date of this Version

1984

Citation

Academy of Management Review, 1984, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 27-36.

Comments

Published by Academy of Management. Used by permission.

Abstract

This paper is in answer to the call for new, innovative perspectives and methodologies for organizational research. Although the approach here falls within the subjective/idiographic/qualitative/insider set of methodologies rather than the objective/nomothetic/quantitative/outsider set, there is the potential to bridge the gap between the two sets. Coming largely from anthropology, the emic perspective is explained; the specific steps for ethnoscience analyses are summarized; and examples and implications are given.

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