On the Ethnographic Part of the Mix
探讨民族志在组织发展中的部分作用，结合溯因逻辑、情境与意义问题，以及组织干预思想，通过州法院和癌症治疗中心的案例说明这种混合方法虽模糊但有效，但政治和实施问题常阻碍其方案试行。
Ethnography plays a partial role in organizational development in ways that call out for a kind of ‘‘tale of the field’’ that represents what Geertz calls a ‘‘blurred genre.’’ It is blurred by a mixture of ethnographic epistemology based on abductive logic and context/meaning questions, together with ideas from organizational intervention from work by such figures as Argyris, Schein and Stacey. This article defines and exemplifies the blend with two case studies from a state court and a cancer treatment center. The conclusion is that the tale, blurred genre though it is, is in fact clear and it works. The problem is that political and implementation issues typically block a trial run of the proposed solutions that it generates.