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Author Leggett, William, 1967- author.

Title The flexible imagination : at work in the transnational corporate offices of Jakarta, Indonesia / William H. Leggett
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 125 pages)
Contents Locating the anthropologist -- The colonial imagination -- Drama and the colonial imagination -- Terror and the colonial imagination -- Institutionalizing the colonial imagination -- The work of culture -- The flexible imagination
Summary "A behind-the-scenes ethnography examining the social interactions between employees from different cultural and national backgrounds who work together for several notorious Fortune 500 corporations out of Southeast Asia. Describes how people cope with unfamiliar surroundings and the mundane-ness of office work through a select use of historical, cultural, and economic imaginaries"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Business anthropology -- Indonesia -- Jakarta
Corporate culture -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Cross-cultural studies
Organizational behavior -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Cross-cultural studies
White collar workers -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Social life and customs
International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Jakarta
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Business anthropology
Corporate culture
International business enterprises -- Social aspects
Organizational behavior
Indonesia -- Jakarta
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021675812
ISBN 9780739181157
0739181157