01383pab a2200193 454500 180718b2000 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Ram, Monder Hustling, hassling and making it happen: researching consultants in a small firm context 2000 p.657-77 Nov The investigation of work in small consultancy firms poses particular challenges for researchers. These include the omnipotence of the founding entrepreneur, estranagement from the academic community, a lack of time, an ambiguous knowledge base and the ostensibly unitarist nature of work relations in such settings. Drawing on the experience of an intensive fieldwork study of employment relations in three small consultancy firms, this paper examines how an `entrepreneurial' approach was used to address such contingencies. Key features of this process were the enactment of fieldwork opportunities, the potential creation of a `joint venture' and the subsequent management of relations in the field. A degree of manipulation is an inherent feature of such an enterprise; but this should be seen in the context of a relationship of `symmetry' between researcher and researched. - Reproduced Ethnicity Case studies Entrepreneurs Management Organization 46979 46979 46979 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 7, Issue no: 4 AR47407 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR