Populist Mobilization: A New Theoretical Approach to Populism*

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The Ethics of Textual Analysis of Tweets & Other Tech-y Talk

The normative enterprise of qualitative research suggests an epistemic ethics of truth and advancement of human progress through knowledge. An ethical responsibility for discernment rests with researchers who would analyze the rich texts of social media messages. I present strategies for researchers to consider when attempting to verify truth and authenticity in the Twitterverse and elsewhere, especially when concerns arise about astroturfing, or artificial grassroots advocacy

When the Gaijin Became Dragons: The First Foreign Players in Nagoya

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Time, Technology, and the Ethnographic Interview

As ethnographers, we stand with a foot in each of two worlds: that of ordinary people whose oral histories we seek to preserve and a high-tech environment of research tools. Interviewing strangers requires sophistication and skill; teaching “digital natives” to balance their need for instant gratification with the need to cultivate informants can be especially challenging. We suggest strategies for helping young researchers learn to integrate technology in cross-cultural interviewing

Organising for continuous improvement: structures and roles in automotive components plants

This paper reports some preliminary findings from a research project on the management of problem solving and continuous improvement in UK and US first tier automotive component manufacturers. It draws on organizational theory to interpret emerging structures, relationships and roles in the light of recent work on the “learning factory” model of manufacturing. There is considerable evidence of shifting patterns of roles and responsibilities, especially for operators, front-line managers and a new cadre of continuous improvement specialists, but only limited evidence of knowledge transfer across organizational boundaries. Overall the findings suggest that there are various routes toward the learning factory and that ultimately this model of operations is likely to have numerous practical incarnations