Managing managerial identities: Organizational fragmentation, discourse and identity struggle
Författare
Summary, in English
This is a case study of managerial identity work, based on an in-depth case of a senior manager and the organizational context in which she works. The article addresses the interplay between organizational discourses, role expectations, narrative self-identity and identity work Identity is conceptualized in processual terms as identity work and struggle. The article illuminates fragmentation as well as integration in the interplay between organizational discourses and identity. It aims to contribute to a processual oriented identity theory and to the methodology of identity studies through showing the advantage of a multi-level intensive study.
Publiceringsår
2003
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1163-1193
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Human Relations
Volym
56
Issue
10
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Business Administration
- Economics and Business
Nyckelord
- narrative
- identity struggle
- discourse
- identity
- managerial
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0018-7267