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This introduction presents a short review of existing video-based research in organizations by highlighting how these researches address the material, embodied, and sensorial dimensions of the workplace practices. We then introduce the purpose of the book and present the three main sections: (1) video-ethnography and reflexivity-in-practice: making visible the embodied and sensory dimensions of work practices, (2) video-ethnography and organizing spaces: sensing places and the multiple nature of working spaces, and (3) “outsider” and “insider” video-ethnographer: exploring multimodal and multisensorial workplace settings.

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Grosjean, S., Matte, F. (2021). Introduction. In: Grosjean, S., Matte, F. (eds) Organizational Video-Ethnography Revisited. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65551-8_1

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