Field Sites

Ancient olive tree cross-section — tree rings documenting decades of growth and resilience

Experience organized by the questions each environment made possible.

A field site is not a job title or a résumé entry. It is an environment that posed particular questions — about how organizations function, how culture is transmitted, how people adapt under pressure. These five represent the primary contexts in which this research practice has been developed and tested.

Ethnographic research is defined by its sites. The questions a researcher can ask are shaped by the environments they have inhabited — the organizations they have observed from the inside, over time, with sustained attention. Each of these sites produced a different set of observations, and each has contributed to the working hypotheses and methodology that define this practice.

These sites are not exhaustive. They are the environments that have most shaped the questions this research practice continues to pursue.

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Daphne M. Clark

Strategy · Research · Observation

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