Dear All,
Does anybody know any good ethnographies of business/management
culture, particularly any that move outside the workplace to look at
"informal" business related activities like deals done on golf
courses or bath houses. A student of mine is looking at business
practices by expatriates in Russia and trying to get a comparative
feel for what is "already" normal in business cultures elsewhere. He
is particularly interested in the moral ambiguities of culture clash
like differing interpretations of bribery so I have recommended
Ditton's "Part Time Crime" and Hobbs' "Doing the Business" at the
more "criminal end".
ATB,
Edmund
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