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Author Leggett, William, 1967- author.

Title The flexible imagination : at work in the transnational corporate offices of Jakarta, Indonesia / William Leggett.

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Business anthropology -- Indonesia -- Jakarta.
Business anthropology.
Indonesia -- Jakarta.
Corporate culture -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Cross-cultural studies.
Corporate culture.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Organizational behavior -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Cross-cultural studies.
Organizational behavior.
White collar workers -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Social life and customs.
White collar workers.
Manners and customs.
International business enterprises -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Jakarta.
International business enterprises -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Leggett, William, 1967- Flexible imagination 9780739181140 (DLC) 2013025255 (OCoLC)851347266
ISBN 9780739181157 (electronic book)
0739181157 (electronic book)
9780739181140
0739181149