Flexible Imagination
Subtitle: At Work in the Transnational Corporate Offices of Jakarta, Indonesia
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780739181140
Subjects: Business anthropology; Corporate culture; Organizational behavior; White collar workers; International business enterprises; Business enterprises, asia
Description: "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"--