Companion to Organizational Anthropology

D. Douglas Caulkins is emeritus professor of anthropology at Grinnell College and emeritus director of the Donald L. Wilson Program in Enterprise and Leadership. His research encompasses voluntary organizations and social capital in Norway, entrepreneurship and regional development in the UK (Wales, Scotland, Northeast England), heritage sites and national identity in the UK and US, and anthropological contributions to management theory. He has published in various journals and books and currently is engaged in social entrepreneurship and organizational development projects. Ann T. Jordan is professor of anthropology at University of North Texas. She is an applied anthropologist specializing in business anthropology, globalization and transnational organizations, Saudi Arabia, and North American Indian studies, and is the author of the books Business Anthropology and The Making of a Modern Kingdom: Globalization and Change in Saudi Arabia.

• Notes on Contributors viiiAbstracts xivExpanding the Field of Organizational Anthropology for the Twenty-first Century 1Ann T. Jordan and D. Douglas CaulkinsPart I Critique and Theory 251. The Organization of Anthropology and Higher Education in the United States 27Davydd J. Greenwood2. The Changing Rhetoric of Corporate Culture 56Allen W. Batteau3. New Institutional Approaches to Formal Organizations 74Marietta L. Baba, Jeanette Blomberg, Christine LaBond, and Inez Adams4. Entrepreneurship Studies 98Peter Rosa and D. Douglas Caulkins5. Neurological Model of Organizational Culture 122Tomoko Hamada ConnollyPart II Methods and Analysis 1476. Social Networks and Organizations 149Brandon Ofem, Theresa M. Floyd, and Stephen P. Borgatti7. A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understand Global Networked Organizations 167Julia C. Gluesing8. Measuring Organizational Dynamics 193Gerald Mars9. Semiotics of Organizations 204Joseph D. Hankins10. An Ethnography of Numbers 219Daniel Neyland11. Managing Conflict on Organizational Partnerships 236Elizabeth K. BriodyPart III Organizational Processes 25712. Working on Work Organizations 259Charles N. Darrah and Alicia Dornadic13. Organizational Innovation Is a Participative Process 275Morten Levin14. Communities of Practice 289Susan Squires and Michael L. Van De Vanter15. Organizational Networks and Social Capital 311Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen and Christian Waldstrøm16. American Labor Unions as Organizations 328Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem17. Virtual Organizations 346Christina Wasson18. Sustaining Social Sector Organizations 362Joan A. Tucker and D. Douglas CaulkinsPart IV Globalization, Development, and Modernization 37919. The Contemporary World of Finance 381Allen W. Batteau20. Globalization, Modernization, and Complex Organizations 399Ann T. Jordan21. Chinese Business Ventures into China 418Heidi Dahles and Juliette Koning22. Corporate Social Responsibility: Interaction between Market and Community 438Bengi Ertuna23. NGOs and Community Development: Assessing the Contributions from Sen’s Perspective of Freedom 455J. Montgomery Roper24. Why Are Indigenous Organizations Declining in Latin America? 471Carmen Martínez Novo25. Australian Indigenous Organizations 493Sarah E. Holcombe and Patrick Sullivan26. Organization of Schooling in Three Countries 519Edmund T. Hamann, Saloshna Vandeyar, and Juan Sánchez GarcíaIndex 538

“Douglas Caulkins and Ann Jordan’s Companion represents an important framing of knowledge about organizations that combines insights from anthropology and organizational studies. Scholars in both disciplines should take note: Organizational anthropology has come of age!.”  (Expofairs.com, 11 November 2014)