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    Cultural change from a business anthropology perspective / [edited by] Maryann McCabe and Elizabeth K. Briody.

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    • Title:Cultural change from a business anthropology perspective / [edited by] Maryann McCabe and Elizabeth K. Briody.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:McCabe, Maryann, editor, author.
      Briody, Elizabeth Kathleen, editor, author.
    • Published/Created:Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Business anthropology.
      Corporations--Sociological aspects.
      Social change.
    • Description:viii, 309 pages ; 24 cm
    • Summary:Using a set of case studies conducted in the United States, China, India, Nigeria, and Cambodia, Maryann McCabe and Elizabeth K. Briody examine cultural change in everyday life, or more specifically, the process of human perception and action in the instigation of change.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:1498544517 hardcover
      9781498544511 hardcover
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I CONSUMER AND DESIGN INTERFACE
      1. I Hope When She Grows Up, She Will Have a Job with a Pen: Drip Irrigation and Hope in Cambodia / Emilie Hitch
      2. New Playing Field: Technology Disruption in Higher Education in the United States / Marijke Rijsberman
      3. Changing Culture through Technology Adoption: Promoting Tablet Use at a Public University / Henry D. Delcore
      4. Enchanted Objects, Social Robots, and the Internet of Things: Exploring the Role of Design in Innovation and Cultural Change / Christine Miller
      pt. II CONSUMER AND PRODUCT/SERVICE INTERFACE
      5. Changing Nature of Everyday Practice: Smart Devices as Disruptive Agents of Cultural Change / Patricia Wall
      6. Technology Metaphors and Impediments to Technology Use at the Base of the Pyramid in India / Russell W. Belk
      7. Enigma of Innovation: Changing Practices of Nonalcoholic Beverage Consumption in China / Ma Jingjing
      8. Relationship Building: Nigerian Entrepreneurs, Business Networks, and Chinese Counterparts / O. Onomake
      pt. III CONSUMER AND ORGANIZATION INTERFACE
      9. Designing Disruption: The Neoliberal Nonprofit Industry Makes Room for Holistic Approaches / Kevin M. Newton
      10. Organizational Change from the Inside: Negotiating the Dual Identity of Employee and Ethnographer / Jo Aiken.
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