A Visual Turn for Organizational Ethnography: Embodying the Subject in Video-Based Research

• Published in: Organization studies Vol. 39; no. 10; pp. 1403 - 1424
• Main Authors: Hassard, John, Burns, Diane, Hyde, Paula, Burns, John-Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2018; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Documentary films; Embodiment; Epistemology; Ethnography; Logic; Methodological problems; Motion picture directors & producers; Motion pictures; Objectivity; Organization studies; Organization theory; Organizational research; Qualitative research; Realism; Research methodology; Social problems; Sociology; Theorists; Truth; Viewers; organization studies; embodiment; filmmaking; video; realism; documentary; ethnography; participatory

For organizational ethnography we argue that traditional philosophies of onto-epistemological realism be supplanted by interpretive and reflexive thinking to provide fresh theoretical assumptions and new methodological proposals for film- and video-based research. The argument is developed in three...