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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Why are we talking inside?
T2 - reflecting on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and management research
AU - Whiteman, Gail
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - In this article, I utilize semifictional dialogue as a means of reflecting on my Ph.D. research on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Although my findings were ultimately published in The Academy of Management Journal, the research, defense, and publication process raised a number of interesting issues, including ambiguities and miscommunications that emerged when I tried to communicate and share my findings with academic and business audiences. These reflections are presented in a creative semifictional format that privileges the dialogical basis of Indigenous oral tradition and storytelling. By using this medium, I hope to deepen our understanding and appreciation of TEK as an interesting ecologically embedded approach to management and also to raise and reflect on the validity and implications of using this type of ethnographic representation within organizational research.
AB - In this article, I utilize semifictional dialogue as a means of reflecting on my Ph.D. research on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Although my findings were ultimately published in The Academy of Management Journal, the research, defense, and publication process raised a number of interesting issues, including ambiguities and miscommunications that emerged when I tried to communicate and share my findings with academic and business audiences. These reflections are presented in a creative semifictional format that privileges the dialogical basis of Indigenous oral tradition and storytelling. By using this medium, I hope to deepen our understanding and appreciation of TEK as an interesting ecologically embedded approach to management and also to raise and reflect on the validity and implications of using this type of ethnographic representation within organizational research.
KW - semifiction
KW - narrative
KW - Indigenous peoples
KW - traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
KW - ethnography
U2 - 10.1177/1056492604268220
DO - 10.1177/1056492604268220
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
SP - 261
EP - 277
JO - Journal of Management Inquiry
JF - Journal of Management Inquiry
SN - 1056-4926
IS - 3
M1 - 13
ER -