Using an approach to ethnomethodological investigation which we have called Third Person Phenomenology, this series of studies explores consociation as the achievement of co-ordinated chains of action within routine Executive Management. Its major theme is the sustained accountability of executive management as a finite province of meaning in situations where the usual resources of face to face cannot be invoked.

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