From Research Reflexivity to Research Affectivity: Ethnographic Research in Organizations

摘要: How do researchers account for their interactions with participants when employing in-depth, ethnographic studies of organizations? In this chapter, instead limiting ourselves to discussions ‘reflexivity’, a common term among organizational ethnographers, we propose that ideas from the neighbouring field psychosocial and psychoanalytic studies, particularly concept transference, can help us understand relationship in more depth. This lens suggests there is going on research than might appear surface; unconscious often hidden desires reflections past experiences marking encounter between researcher participants. Drawing these new method, ‘research affectivity’, understanding self-reflexivity engagement. addition contributing contemporary ethnography, add specific debates within development methods draw upon discipline.