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This paper investigates how abstraction operates within governance-level organisational ethnography, emphasizing analytic focus.

The ethnographer's pause: “qua” and the epistemic status of abstraction in governance level organisational ethnography

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This conceptual paper clarifies abstraction in governance-level ethnography, suggesting a framework for analysis without oversimplification.

This paper investigates how abstraction operates within governance-level organisational ethnography, emphasizing analytic focus.
Developed a conceptual argument supported by governance vignettes.
Utilized Aristotle's idea of 'qua' to explain ethnographic focus.
Described and analyzed the practice of aspectual specification.
Ethnographic abstraction can be seen as responsible analytic limitation rather than fragmentation.
A board meeting can be analyzed as strategic deliberation without being exclusively defined by that aspect.
Introduced a vocabulary to enhance clarity in governance-level organisational ethnography and reflexivity.

Dhammika Guruge (2026) studied this question.

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This conceptual paper clarifies abstraction in governance-level ethnography, suggesting a framework for analysis without oversimplification.