Moving Organizations into the Foreground, Part II: Case Studies and Discussion - Ramer

Moving Organizations into the Foreground, Part II: Case Studies and Discussion 

 

CHAIRS: BRIODY, Elizabeth K. (Cultural Keys LLC), EATON, Tara (Wayne State U, Karmanos Cancer Inst) EATON, Tara (Wayne State U, Karmanos Cancer Inst) Striving for “Meaningful Use” in Health Information Technology Adoption among Health Care Organizations: Anthropology’s Role SQUIRES, Susan (UNT) Workflow and Communities of Practice among Computational Scientists WRIGHT, Rachel (Independent) The Making and Unmaking of Class in Nonprofit Organizations RAMER, Angela (UNT & HKS Inc) Anthropology in an Organizational Setting: Architecture

 

DISCUSSANT: STEWART, Alex (Marquette U)

 

BRIODY, Elizabeth K. (Cultural Keys LLC) and EATON, Tara (Karmanos Cancer Inst) Moving Organizations into the Foreground, Part I: Theory and Practice in Anthropology. Anthropological practice in, for, and about organizations has been an important area of practice since the 1980s. Professional and applied anthropologists work in or consult for businesses, non- profit organizations, governmental agencies, and NGOs. Yet, SfAA and AAA conferences have few sessions that emphasize or address organizational issues. Part 1 of this session draws attention to the underrepresentation of organizational work and offers some reasons why. Topics covered include anthropological approaches to organizational work, the role of anthropologists in organizational and change management research, and the place of organization studies in Masters and Ph.D. training. Part 2 focuses on case studies.

 

Session took place in Pittsburgh, PA at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2015.