What is Business Anthropology?
What is business anthropology? Business anthropology is the discipline that applies the theories and methodologies of social anthropology in the investigation of (or for) organizations and their ecosy…
Author: Pablo Mondragón Valero
Proud to call myself a “Business Anthropologist”
For the past seven years, anthropology has become the central theme of my life. My undergraduate thesis was focused on problematizing career opportunities in anthropology. Around that same…
Business Anthropology events in 2018
Generally, when we change the year on the calendar, people tend to look back and see how they have evolved, what they have done and reflect on it.…
Thick Data in Product Development: The Go-Gurt Case
Thick Data refers to all those data obtained in an immersive/ethnographic way aiming at revealing the cultural, social and emotional contexts of one or several study groups. Thick…
The Power of Multidisciplinarity: Hackathon-Valencia Case
This weekend we have participated in the II Edition of Hackathon Innova&Acción Business Challenge, an event organized by the Association of ex-students of the Polytechnic University of Valencia…
Regarding the moral issue in Corporate Anthropology
An interesting anecdote is told by Patricia Sunderland and Rita Denny in their work “Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research”. They were both contacted by an important fast food…
Regarding the moral issue in Corporate Anthropology
An interesting anecdote is told by Patricia Sunderland and Rita Denny in their work “Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research”. They were both contacted by an important fast food…
Business Anthropology: a pending subject in Academia
In this article I will defend the incorporation of the “business anthropology” in the training plan of the different degrees and studies in Social Anthropology, either as a…
Business Anthropology: a pending subject in Academia
In this article I will defend the incorporation of the “business anthropology” in the training plan of the different degrees and studies in Social Anthropology, either as a…
Communicating anthropology: Blogging or scientific journals?
Blogs and bloggers have undermined a series of symbolic barriers that have limited the creation and expansion of knowledge and the development of our discipline in the past.…
Communicating anthropology: Blogging or scientific journals?
Blogs and bloggers have undermined a series of symbolic barriers that have limited the creation and expansion of knowledge and the development of our discipline in the past.…
From Edison to Tim Brown: Some ideas about Design Thinking
Design Thinking is defined as a method that allows us to generate innovative solutions based on the needs of users. It was created in the classrooms of Stanford…