The Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography

For nearly 40 years researchers have been using narratives and stories to understand larger cultural issues through the lenses of their personal experiences. There is an increasing recognition that autoethnographic approaches to work and organizations add to our knowledge of both personal identity and organizational scholarship. By using personal narrative and autoethnographic approaches, this research focuses on the working lives of individual people within the organizations for which they work. This international handbook includes chapters that provide multiple overarching perspectives to organizational autoethnography including views from fields such as critical, postcolonial and queer studies. It also tackles specific organizational processes, including organizational exits, grief, fandom, and workplace bullying, as well as highlighting the ethical implications of writing organizational research from a personal narrative approach. Contributors also provide autoethnographies about the military, health care and academia, in addition to approaches from various subdisciplines such as marketing, economics, and documentary film work. Contributions from the US, the UK, Europe, and the Global South span disciplines such as organizational studies and ethnography, communication studies, business studies, and theatre and performance to provide a comprehensive map of this wide-reaching area of qualitative research. This handbook will therefore be of interest to both graduate and postgraduate students as well as practicing researchers. Winner of the 2021 National Communication Association Ethnography Division Best Book Award Winner of the 2021 Distinguished Book on Business Communication Award, Association for Business Communication

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface: Organizing a Handbook and What’s Inside Andrew F. Herrmann Section I: Situating Organizational Autoethnography 1. The Historical and Hysterical Narratives of Organization and Autoethnography Andrew F. Herrmann 2. Life between Interlocking Oppressions: An Intersectional Approach to Organizational Autoethnography Helena Liu 3. Autoethnography through the Prism of Foucault’s Care of the Self Leah Tomkins 4. Queering Organizational Research Through Autoethnography Jamie McDonald and Nick Rumens 5. Postcolonial Organizational Autoethnography: Journey into Reflexivity, Erasures, and Margins Mahuya Pal, Beatriz Nieto Fernandez, and Nivethitha Ketheeswaran 6. Aggression, Bullying and Mobbing in the Workplace: An Autoethnographic Exploration Mpho M. Pheko, Thabo L. Seleke, Joy Tauetsile, and Motsomi N. Marobela Section II: Autoethnography Across Organizational Disciplines 7. On Not Seeing Myself in the Research on Veterans Jeni R. Hunniecutt 8. Navigating the Narrow Spaces: A Critical Autoethnography of Life in the (Postmodern) Neoliberal University Christopher N. Poulos 9. Autoethnography and Information Technology Niamh Riordan 10. Organizational Autoethnographies of Economy, Finance, Business and Management: Reflections and Possibilities Jeff Hearn, Karl-Erik Sveiby, and Anika Thym 11. The Discomfort of Autoethnography in Academic Marketing Research Chris Hackley Section III: Organizations and Organizing 12. Billable (H)ours: Autoethnography, Ambivalence, and Academic Labor in a Healthcare Organization Nicole Defenbaugh, Jay Baglia, and Elissa Foster 13. Birthing Autoethnographic Philanthropy, Healing, and Organizational Change: That Baby’s Name Abby Lackey 14. Organizing Desire: The Queer Bar Tony E. Adams 15. Polypreneur: An Autoethnography of Owning Multiple Businesses, Simultaneously Stephanie K. Webb 16. Organizational Resistance and Autoethnography Sanne Frandsen and R. Duncan M. Pelly Section IV: Organizing Organizational Identities 17. Grieving Kathy: An Interactional Autoethnography of Cultivating Sustainable Organizations Danielle M. Stern and Linda D. Manning 18. Finding the "I" in Fan: Organizing Around Performed Identities within Fan Spaces Adam Tyma 19. Pieced Together. Writing Invisible (Dis)abilities in Academia Katrine Meldgaard Kjær and Noortje van Amsterdam 20. "Switch Off the Headwork!": Everyday Organizational Crossings in Identity Transformations from Academic to Distance Runner Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson and John Hockey 21. An Autoethnographic Account of (Pre)Retirement Socialization: Examining Anticipatory Messages About Workforce Exit Lindsey B. Anderson 22. Walking Home: An Autoethnography of Hiking, Cultural Identity, and (De)colonization Phiona Stanley Section V: Writing and Evaluating Organizational Autoethnography 23. Learning through the Process: Failure, Frustration and Forward Movement in Autoethnography Katherine Denker, Kayla Rausch, and Savaughn Williams 24. The IRB’s Stone Wall: Rollercoaster of Doom Thomas W. Townsend, Angela Duggins, Brandon Bragg, Tess McCoy, Juliette Guerrault, Jessica Newell, and Hannah Tiberi 25. Anchoring the Big Tent: How Organizational Autoethnography Exemplifies and Stretches Notions of Qualitative Quality Cary J. S. López and Sarah J. Tracy 26. Towards a Model of Collaborative Organizational Autoethnography: The More the Merrier? Sally Sambrook and Clair Doloriert 27. Autoethnographic Data as Abductive Experiences Wafa Said Mosleh Section VI: Organizing the Future of Organizational Autoethnography 28. Framing Stories from the Academic Margins: Documentary as Qualitative Inquiry and Critical Community Engagement Brian Johnston 29. Time and the Writing of Personal Narratives in Organizational Ethnography Mette Gislev Kjærsgaard and Henry Larson 30. Organizing Autoethnography on the Internet: Models and Challenges Maha Bali 31. A CCO Perspective on Autoethnography: Researching, Organizing and Constituting Frédérik Matte and Geneviève Boivin 32. Conclusion: Organizing the Future of Organizational Autoethnography Andrew F. Herrmann

Andrew F. Herrmann is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at East Tennessee State University, where he teaches organizational and professional communication, communication technology, and personal narrative courses. His critical research focuses on identity, narrative, and power at the intersections of organizational, occupational, and popular culture contexts.