For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen's "Tales of the Field" has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detail and critically analyze the various styles and na[...]
This first major empirical work on the semiotics of social action goes a long way toward answering substantive, theoretical and pragmatic questions on how codes actually operate in a specific social setting. It underscores the important yet often ignored role of the police as "sign" or "information [...]
"Managing for the Future" is an approach to teaching organizational behaviour based on the course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The text's flexible design and its' experiential-based approach should make it an appealing choice for MBA students.[...]