Constructing Identity in and Around Organizations

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-964099-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

Reihe: Perspectives on Process Organization Studies

Constructing Identity in and around Organizations is the second volume in Perspectives on Process Organization Studies, a series which explores an emerging approach to the study of organizations that focuses on (understanding) activities, interactions, and change as essential properties of organizations rather than structures and state - an approach which prioritizes activity over product, change over persistence, novelty over continuity, and expression over determination.

The constructing of identities - those processes through which actors in and around organizations claim, accept, negotiate, affirm, stabilize, maintain, reproduce, challenge, disrupt, destabilize, repair or otherwise relate to their sense of selves and others - has become a critically important topic in the study of organizations. This volume attempts to amplify - and possibly refract - contemporary debates amongst identity scholars that question established notions of identity as "essence", "entity," or "thing". It calls for alternative approaches to understanding identity and its significance in contexts in and around organizations by conceptualizing it as "process" - that is, being continually under construction. Based in diverse theoretical and philosophical traditions and contexts, contributions by leading scholars to this volume offer new perspectives on how individual and organizational identities evolve and come to be constructed through ongoing activities and interactions.

Zielgruppe

Academics, researchers, and graduate students in Management, Organization Studies, and Sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schultz, Majken

Maguire, Steve

Langley, Ann

Tsoukas, Haridimos

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Majken Schultz, Steve Maguire, Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas: Constructing identity in and around organizations: Introducing the second volume of Perspectives on Organization Studies
Part I: Identity and Organizations
1: Michael G. Pratt: Rethinking Identity Construction Processes In Organizations: Three Questions to Consider
2: Dennis A. Gioia and Shubha Patvardhan: Identity as Process and Flow
3: Mary Ann Glynn and Lee Watkiss: Exploring Cultural Mechanisms of Organizational Identity Construction
4: Jochem J. Kroezen and Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens: Organizational Identity Formation: Processes of Identity Imprinting and Enactment in the Dutch Microbrewing Landscape
5: James V. Wertsch: Narrative Tools and the Construction of Identity
6: Frank Mueller and Andrea Whittle: Villains, Victims and the Financial Crisis: Positioning Identities through Descriptions
7: James Williams: Identity and Time in Gilles Deleuze's Process Philosophy
Part II: General Process Perspectives
8: Philippe Lorino and Benoît Tricard: The Bakhtinian Theory of Chronotope (Time-Space Frame) Applied to the Organizing Process
9: Elden Wiebe, Roy Suddaby and William M. Foster: The Momentum of Organizational Change
10: Simon Grand and Adrian Ackeret: Management Knowledge: A Process View
11: Andrew H. Van de Ven and Harry Sminia: Aligning Process Questions, Perspectives and Explanations

Über Autor(innen)

Majken Schultz is Professor of Organization Studies at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School; International Research Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation at Oxford University,
Saïd Business School; and partner in the Reputation Institute. Her research focuses on the construction and expression of identity in theory and practice with a special interest in the interplay between culture, identity, and images, and the implications for corporate branding processes. She has published several books and more than 40 international articles.

Haridimos Tsoukas holds the Columbia Ship Management Chair in Strategic Management at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus and is a Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He obtained his PhD at the Manchester Business School (MBS), University of Manchester, and has worked at MBS, the University of Essex, the University of Strathclyde, and the ALBA Graduate Business School, Greece. He has published widely in several leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, and Human Relations. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies (2003-2008).

Steve Maguire is Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. His research focuses on institutional and technological change resulting when commercial, scientific and political struggles intersect around social or environmental issues.; Ann Langley is Professor of Management at HEC Montréal and Canada research chair in strategic management in pluralistic settings. Her research focuses on strategic change, leadership, innovation and the use of management tools in complex organizations with an emphasis on processual research approaches. She has published over 50 articles and two books.