Title: Making Sense of Managerial Work and Organizational Research Processes with Caroline and Terry
Abstract: The story of Caroline and Terry is a tale of a manager and a participant-observer researcher. It is also a tale of organizational politics, gender relations and the relationships between human resource managers and other managers. The story is in part a fiction. But, at the same time, it is a piece of social-science writing. It is `made up' but it is also `true'. It uses imagination but is also theoretically informed and draws upon research fieldwork. The story demonstrates how ethnographic research accounts can be written in a way that bridges the genres of creative writing and social science. This `ethnographic fiction science' has eight characteristics, four of which give it a fictional dimension and four of which make it social scientific.
Publication Year: 2000
Publication Date: 2000-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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