Advancing the Value of Ethnography

EPIC2016 Minneapolis | Pathmaking

Pathmaking emphasizes the power of ethnography to create transformative innovation, growth and strategic success for companies, industries and communities.

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Papers

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‘It’s Not Just about the Patient’: A ‘360° Feedback’ Ethnography

Jyotirmaya Mahapatra et al.

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Applying Theory to Applied Ethnography

Maria Cury & Daniel Bird

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Cultural Change Management in Organizations from Competing Perspectives

Allen W. Batteau & Gladis Cecilia Villegas

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Ethnography Is the Path-Maker to Better Care: Paving the Way to a Patient-centric Healthcare Model

Ciara Green et al.

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Everyday Life in Tamil Nadu, India and Its Cost to “Free Basics”

Shriram Venkatraman & Nimmi Rangaswamy

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From Inspiring Change to Directing Change

Carolyn Hou & Mads Holme

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How Autoethnography Enables Sensemaking across Organizations

Frederik Gottlieb & Wafa Said Mosleh

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How New Social Design Captures the Social with Photographs

Ilpo Koskinen

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Mapping the Field of Social Businesses in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Maria Flávia Bastos et al.

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Market Creation through Community Engagement: Combining Ethnographic and Business Thinking

Craig Cisero & Roberta Tassi

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Meaningful Innovation: Ethnographic Potential in the Startup and Venture Capital Spheres

Julia Katherine Haines

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Media, Mediation and the Curatorial Value of Professional Anthropologists

Michael G. Powell

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Merging Institutional Logics and Negotiated Culture Perspectives to Help Cross-Sector Partnerships

Sarah Easter & Mary Yoko Brannen

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Paco – Applying Computational Methods to Scale Qualitative Methods

Bob Evans

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Participatory Design: Re-evaluation as a Socio-material Assembly

Peter Hasdell

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Taking Sides in E-cigarette Research

Rachelle Annechino & Tamar Antin

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Tell Me Why You Did That: Learning “Ethnography” from the Design Studio

AnneMarie Dorland

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The Anthropology of Wearables: The Self, The Social, and the Autobiographical

Sakari Tamminen & Elisabet Holmgren

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The Domestication of Data: Why Embracing Digital Data Means Embracing Bigger Questions

Dawn Nafus

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The Rise of the User and the Fall of People: Ethnographic Cooptation and a New Language of Globalization

Shaheen Amirebrahimi

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Understanding Users: The Extensions of Expectant Systems

Amir-Pouyan Shiva

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What Is a Sustainable Innovation? Cultural and Contextual Contradictions in the Social Ecology of Cooking

William Schindhelm Georg & Peter Hayward Jones