D. Douglas Caulkins & Ann T. Jordan 
A Companion to Organizational Anthropology 

The first comprehensive guide to anthropological studies of complex
organizations

* Offers the first comprehensive reference to the anthropological
study of complex organizations

* Details how organizational theory and research in business has
adopted anthropology’s key concept of culture, inspiring new
insights into organizational dynamics and development

* Highlights pioneering theoretical perspectives ranging from
symbolic and semiotic approaches to neuroscientific frameworks for
studying contemporary organizations

* Addresses the comparative and cross-cultural dimensions of
multinational corporations and of non-governmental organizations
working in the globalizing economy

* Topics covered include organizational dynamics,
entrepreneurship, innovation, social networks, cognitive models and
team building, organizational dysfunctions, global networked
organizations, NGOs, unions, virtual communities, corporate culture
and social responsibility

* Presents a body of work that reflects the breadth and depth of
the field of organizational anthropology and makes the case for the
importance of the field in the anthropology of the twenty-first
century

Table of Content

Notes on Contributors viii

Abstracts xiv

Expanding the Field of Organizational Anthropology for the
Twenty-first Century 1

Ann T. Jordan and D. Douglas Caulkins

Part I Critique and Theory 25

1. The Organization of Anthropology and Higher Education in the
United States 27

Davydd J. Greenwood

2. The Changing Rhetoric of Corporate Culture 56

Allen W. Batteau

3. New Institutional Approaches to Formal Organizations 74

Marietta L. Baba, Jeanette Blomberg, Christine La Bond, and Inez
Adams

4. Entrepreneurship Studies 98

Peter Rosa and D. Douglas Caulkins

5. Neurological Model of Organizational Culture 122

Tomoko Hamada Connolly

Part II Methods and Analysis 147

6. Social Networks and Organizations 149

Brandon Ofem, Theresa M. Floyd, and Stephen P. Borgatti

7. A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understand Global Networked
Organizations 167

Julia C. Gluesing

8. Measuring Organizational Dynamics 193

Gerald Mars

9. Semiotics of Organizations 204

Joseph D. Hankins

10. An Ethnography of Numbers 219

Daniel Neyland

11. Managing Conflict on Organizational Partnerships 236

Elizabeth K. Briody

Part III Organizational Processes 257

12. Working on Work Organizations 259

Charles N. Darrah and Alicia Dornadic

13. Organizational Innovation Is a Participative Process
275

Morten Levin

14. Communities of Practice 289

Susan Squires and Michael L. Van De Vanter

15. Organizational Networks and Social Capital 311

Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen and Christian Waldstrøm

16. American Labor Unions as Organizations 328

Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem

17. Virtual Organizations 346

Christina Wasson

18. Sustaining Social Sector Organizations 362

Joan A. Tucker and D. Douglas Caulkins

Part IV Globalization, Development, and Modernization
379

19. The Contemporary World of Finance 381

Allen W. Batteau

20. Globalization, Modernization, and Complex Organizations
399

Ann T. Jordan

21. Chinese Business Ventures into China 418

Heidi Dahles and Juliette Koning

22. Corporate Social Responsibility: Interaction between Market
and Community 438

Bengi Ertuna

23. NGOs and Community Development: Assessing the Contributions
from Sen’s Perspective of Freedom 455

J. Montgomery Roper

24. Why Are Indigenous Organizations Declining in Latin America?
471

Carmen Martínez Novo

25. Australian Indigenous Organizations 493

Sarah E. Holcombe and Patrick Sullivan

26. Organization of Schooling in Three Countries 519

Edmund T. Hamann, Saloshna Vandeyar, and Juan Sánchez
García

Index 538

About the author

D. Douglas Caulkins is emeritus professor of anthropology at
Grinnell College and emeritus director of the Donald L. Wilson
Program in Enterprise and Leadership. His research encompasses
voluntary organizations and social capital in Norway,
entrepreneurship and regional development in the UK (Wales,
Scotland, Northeast England), heritage sites and national identity
in the UK and US, and anthropological contributions to management
theory. He has published in various journals and books and
currently is engaged in social entrepreneurship and organizational
development projects.



Ann T. Jordan is professor of anthropology at University
of North Texas. She is an applied anthropologist specializing in
business anthropology, globalization and transnational
organizations, Saudi Arabia, and North American Indian studies, and
is the author of the books Business Anthropology and The
Making of a Modern Kingdom: Globalization and Change in Saudi
Arabia.