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John Van Maanen
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 73
Citations - 16555
John Van Maanen is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnography & Socialization (Marxism). The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 73 publications receiving 15980 citations. Previous affiliations of John Van Maanen include University of California, Irvine.
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Toward a theory of organizational socialization
John Van Maanen,Edgar H. Schein +1 more
TL;DR: Staw as discussed by the authors reviewed research in organizational behavior in the field of organizational behavior and found that the majority of the studies were focused on organizational behavior, rather than organizational behavior itself, not organizational behavior.
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Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography
TL;DR: For instance, Van Maanen as mentioned in this paper provides a survey of the narrative conventions associated with writing about culture and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of various styles of narrative writing.
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The Fact of Fiction in Organizational Ethnography
TL;DR: The use of such techniques in organizational studies literally forces the researcher to come to grips with the essential ethnographic question of what it is to be rather than to see a member of the organization.
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Occupational Communities: Culture and Control in Organizations
TL;DR: This article developed the concept of an occupational community as a framework for analyzing the phenomenological boundaries of work worlds and showed how research on occupational communities can broaden our knowledge of careers, control, conflict, and innovation, topics traditionally approached from an organizational perspective.
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Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography
Nigel Fielding,John Van Maanen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a student makes connections within and across the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts), to other disciplines, life, cultures and work, and understand how the arts influence and reflect cultures/civilizations, place and time.