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The Organisation in Ethnography –A Discussion of Ethnographic Fieldwork Programs in CSCW

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2000, 2000

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 9, No. 2

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Ethnography is now one of the key approaches usedwithin the CSCW community to specify the role ofcomputer based systems in work practice. Yet whatethnography involves as a program of inquiries is onlydiscussed in a piecemeal way in the literature. Thispaper attempts to make up for that absence bydescribing one fieldwork program (or programme)developed over a number of projects in whichethnography has been allied with computer systems andwork practice design. The discussions will be ofinterest to both expert practitioners of ethnographyand novices.

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Harper, R. H. R. (2000): The Organisation in Ethnography –A Discussion of Ethnographic Fieldwork Programs in CSCW. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 9, No. 2. DOI: 10.1023/A:1008793124669. Springer. PISSN: 1573-7551. pp. 239-264

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computer systems design, CSCW, ethnography, methods, organisations, the International Monetary Fund, work practice

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10.1023/A:1008793124669

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008793124669
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JCSCW Vol. 09 (2000)

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