Business and Industrial Anthropology: An Overview

ISBN-13: 9780913167168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 48 str.

Marietta L. Baba

Opis

* peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology * dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods * most editions available for course adoption.

Spis treści

Preface to the Second Printing iii iv.

Preface v v.

Acknowledgments vii vii.

IntroductionAssociate Professor Marietta L. Baba 1 46.

O autorze

Volume Editor: Marietta L. Baba

General Editors: Ralph J. Bishop and Helen Fisher

Marietta Baba is Dean of the College of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University. She also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor in the Departmentof Management at the Eli Broad College of Business. Previously, she was Professor and Chairof the Department of Anthropology and founding director of the Business and Industrial Anthropology program at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. From 1994 to 1996, shewas Program Director of the National Science Foundation s industry–funded research programentitled Transformations to Quality Organizations. Dr. Baba is the author of 70 scholarly and technicalpublications in the fields of organizational culture, technological change, and evolutionary processes. In 1998 she was appointed to serve on Motorola s global advisory Board of Anthropologists, the first of its kind in the United States. Dr. Baba was a founding member andpast president of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA, 1986 88), asection of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). She served on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of Anthropology for the American Anthropologist (1990 93).She holds an MBA (with highest distinction) from the Advanced Management Program atMichigan State University s Eli Broad Graduate School of Management and a Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology from Wayne State University (doctoral research conducted in the School ofMedicine). She is listed in Who s Who in America (1992 present).mbaba@msu.edu

Blurb

NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem–solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods.