John Van Maanen

John Van Maanen is the Erwin Schell Professor of Organization Studies at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University, University of Surrey (UK), and INSEAD (France). Professor Van Maanen works in the general area of occupational and organizational sociology. Cultural descriptions figure prominently in his work. He is the author of numerous articles and books including Essays in Interpersonal Relations, Organizational Careers, Tales of the Field,...See more

John Van Maanen is the Erwin Schell Professor of Organization Studies at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University, University of Surrey (UK), and INSEAD (France). Professor Van Maanen works in the general area of occupational and organizational sociology. Cultural descriptions figure prominently in his work. He is the author of numerous articles and books including Essays in Interpersonal Relations, Organizational Careers, Tales of the Field, and most recently, Representation in Ethnography. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and Qualitative Sociology, and he is a member of the American Sociological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. See less