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Papers by Elizabeth Briody

Annals of Anthropological Practice, Dec 29, 2023

9th Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REES 2021) and 32nd Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference (REES AAEE 2021), 2022

Culture influences the dynamics and outcomes of organizations in profound ways, including individ... more Culture influences the dynamics and outcomes of organizations in profound ways, including individuallevel outcomes (like the quality of work products) and collective impacts (such as reputation or influence). As such, understanding organizational culture is a crucial element of understanding performance; from an anthropological perspective, 'performance' is not an outcome of culture, it is a part of culture. A key challenge in understanding organizational culture, especially in complex academic organizations, is the lack of a flexible, scalable approach for data collection and analysis.

Journal of Business Anthropology, Nov 14, 2019

Background to the Themed Articles A group of senior scholars, led by Derek Lidow, planned and con... more Background to the Themed Articles A group of senior scholars, led by Derek Lidow, planned and convened a global conference called Expanding Understanding of Business Creation: Adding More Ethnography into the Research Mix, held at Princeton University, August 1-3, 2017. Sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Princeton University's Keller Center, the conference sought to bring together anthropologists, sociologists, and entrepreneurship researchers with funding agencies to discuss how best to stimulate and support new research to collect and analyze detailed observations and information on how start-up teams react to and implement new firms in real time (https://www.princetonkauffman2017.com/about, accessed October 6, 2019). The conference was predicated on the concept that formal interviews and administrative databases typically used by entrepreneurship researchers could not furnish in-depth detail on team dynamics and business interactions that could be derived from ethnographic methods. Bringing researchers from multiple disciplines together to share views and insights had the potential to lead to future

Routledge eBooks, Mar 27, 2017

Features This text takes a unique four-step approach to studying the cultural environment of glob... more Features This text takes a unique four-step approach to studying the cultural environment of global business. It shows the reader how to: Explore the relationship between the discipline of cultural anthropology, its central concept of culture, and the conduct of global business (ex. p. 24) Become culturally self-aware in global business (ex. p. 30) Build and maintain relationships through verbal and nonverbal communication (ex. p. 82, 126) Understand global business processes using a cross-cultural perspective (ex. p. 149, 176) Use cross-cultural scenarios to explore cultural similarities and differences (ex. p. 98, 134, 162) Assessment - Chapter quizzes and flashcards offer immediate feedback and report directly to the gradebook. Writing and Research - A wide range of writing, grammar and research tools and access to a variety of academic journals, census data, Associated Press newsfeeds, and discipline-specific readings help you hone your writing and research skills. Career Footprint - This feature explores industry-related career profiles and helps students learn about various career options.

Practicing Anthropology

Anthropology has never had an organizing framework or template for teaching an agreed-upon set of... more Anthropology has never had an organizing framework or template for teaching an agreed-upon set of courses, a sequence in which those courses should be offered, or the knowledge, skills, and experiences that should be acquired in those courses. Instead, teaching has been left up to individual instructors. Significant changes in the job market for graduates, involving a decrease in academic opportunities and the growth of opportunities in industry, non-profits, and government, have led to a reconceptualization of how and what we teach to prepare students for successful careers. With that in mind, we draw on recent work by the Anthropology Career Readiness Network, as well as earlier research, to construct a framework for curriculum change focused on bringing issues of practice and application into our teaching. We believe this framework will improve the career readiness of all students, whether they intend to become academics or practitioners.

Australasian. Journal of Engineering Education, Jul 3, 2018

Help-seeking behaviours (HSB) are central to the learning process and have a profound impact on a... more Help-seeking behaviours (HSB) are central to the learning process and have a profound impact on academic success. We explore the HSB of students enrolled in a Mechanical Engineering programme at a large research-intensive university in the U.S. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we examine ten resources available to assist students, the frequency with which students use these resources, the perceived usefulness of these resources and students' stated rationale in seeking help from specific resources. Results indicate that students use the available resources at different frequencies, but the frequency with which a student uses a resource is not always related to how useful the student perceives the resource to be. Using Exploratory Factor Analysis, resources were divided into two main groups based on frequency of use, which we classify as 'anchored' or 'detached' based on temporal and spatial accessibility. Patterns emerge in student HSB showing that students access resources in a progression from more detached to more anchored resources. The primary explanatory variable to student HSB is convenience, defined by temporal and spatial accessibility. The more convenient a resource is perceived to be, the more likely a student is to use that resource.

2015 Annual Meeting, Nov 20, 2015

Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, 2014

SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, May 15, 2012

Journal of Political Ecology, Dec 1, 1996

The contributors to this volume skillfully identify and document issues of political participatio... more The contributors to this volume skillfully identify and document issues of political participation, industrial work, downward social mobility, stress, and household functioning in the United.States context. The data selected for discussion are drawn from historical and current sources including interviews, participant observation, surveys, the U.S. Census, and previously published work. Linking micro analyses to the larger macro political and economic environment enables the authors to develop powerful models of cultural behavior. Five detailed, largely empirical analyses are prefaced and followed by theoretical discussions concerning American cultural values and their relationship to societal disorders.

Journal of Business Anthropology, May 7, 2014

In the last regular issue (Fall 2013), Editor Brian Moeran reached out to JBA readers with the ca... more In the last regular issue (Fall 2013), Editor Brian Moeran reached out to JBA readers with the call and challenge: "Just Be Active!" His idea is both highly relevant and relatively straightforward. He seeks ongoing dialogue and exchange among the journal's authors and readers, using the journal as a platform. The JBA offers a continuum of possibilities from opinion pieces to essays to full-length articles associated with the area of business anthropology. Writers can submit case studies, field reports, book reviews, as well as theoretical, methodological and practice-oriented pieces. All is beautifully laid out on the JBA website where readers and prospective authors can get much more information. I have heard some discussion about the potentially-limiting nature of the journal's title. The argument goes that "business anthropology" is a somewhat narrow field of study, which has likely affected the number of submissions and leads one or two correspondents to argue for business ethnography, rather than anthropology. Au contraire! As Moeran indicated (p.119): "…download statistics suggest that articles in the JBA are being read by thousands." The issue, therefore, is neither one of size, nor of focus. The JBA is still in its relative infancy and requires ongoing efforts to raise awareness about it. So many fascinating issues and topics are ripe for examination-in consumer matters, product design, technology, organizational culture and change, finance, advertising,

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks, 2008

Anthropology of Work Review, Dec 1, 1989

2018 Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, 2018

I. Abstract In this paper we report on the results of an ethnographic study of a rapid design inn... more I. Abstract In this paper we report on the results of an ethnographic study of a rapid design innovation (RDI) experiment in NASA Aeronautics. This work is based on the study of the Aeronautics Autonomy Testbed Capability (AATC) team in the Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) project. This paper focuses on and summarizes one of the key over-arching findings from the study: there is a significant mismatch in the organizational culture in the rest of the organization compared with that required for RDI. And, if this organizational cultural mismatch is not addressed, the likelihood of any organization being able to advance a new and different type of work (such as RDI) will be jeopardized. We delineate several aspects of the two different cultures identified in order to enable leaders and practitioners to better understand what contributes to the cultural dissonance and the implications of the differences in the cultures. As well, we identify ways in which those differences can be a...

Anthropology of Work Review, 1989