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Andrew D. Brown - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Identities in and around organizations: Towards an Identity Work perspective:
Human Relations, 2021Co-Authors: Andrew D. BrownAbstract:There is an emergent Identity Work perspective that draws on multiple intertwined streams of established identities theorizing and identities-related research. This perspective is characterized loo...
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business school deans Identity Work and loss
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017Co-Authors: Andrew D. Brown, Michael Lewis, Nick OliverAbstract:Academic middle managers incur multiple losses in the performance of their roles which they both draw on and mitigate in their discursive Identity Work. Based on a sample of UK business school dean...
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Identity Work and organizational identification
International Journal of Management Reviews, 2017Co-Authors: Andrew D. BrownAbstract:In this paper, I analyse five approaches to Identity Work – discursive, dramaturgical, symbolic, socio-cognitive, and psychodynamic – and show how these are helpful in exploring the ways people draw on their membership of organizations in their constructions of self, processes generally referred to as organizational identification. Collectively, these approaches constitute a distinctive perspective on identities and identifications which suggests that they are ‘Worked on’ by embedded social actors who are both constrained and enabled by context. In so doing, I draw attention to issues of agency and process, the always dynamic and complex, often fractured, and sometimes contradictory nature of identities and identifications, and raise a series of issues and questions for further research.
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Identity regulation, Identity Work and phronesis
2017Co-Authors: Thibaut Bardon, Andrew D. Brown, Stéphan PezéAbstract:How do corporations attempt to regulate the ways middle managers draw on discourses centred on ‘effectiveness' and ‘ethics' in their Identity Work, and how do these individuals respond? We analyse the discursive struggle over what it meant to be a competent manager at Disneyland, where middle managers were encouraged to construe their selves in ways that emphasized ‘being effective' over ‘being ethical', and managers responded with Identity Work that positioned them as searching for the practical wisdom (phronesis) to make decisions that were both effective and moral. The theoretical contribution we make is twofold. First, we analyse processes of Identity regulation and Identity Work at Disneyland, highlighting divergences between corporate injunctions and middle managers' appropriations of them, regarding what it meant to be a practically wise manager. Second, we discuss a phronetic Identity narrative template, contestable both by organizations and managers, in which people are positioned as questing for the practical wisdom to make decisions that are both moral and effective, and phronesis as an image by which scholars may analyse identities and Identity Work. This leads us to a more nuanced understanding of middle manager identities and the scope they have to constitute their selves as moral agents.
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Identity regulation, Identity Work and phronesis:
Human Relations, 2017Co-Authors: Thibaut Bardon, Andrew D. Brown, Stéphan PezéAbstract:How do corporations attempt to regulate the ways middle managers draw on discourses centred on ‘effectiveness’ and ‘ethics’ in their Identity Work, and how do these individuals respond? We analyse the discursive struggle over what it meant to be a competent manager at Disneyland, where middle managers were encouraged to construe their selves in ways that emphasized ‘being effective’ over ‘being ethical’, and managers responded with Identity Work that positioned them as searching for the practical wisdom (phronesis) to make decisions that were both effective and moral. The theoretical contribution we make is twofold. First, we analyse processes of Identity regulation and Identity Work at Disneyland, highlighting divergences between corporate injunctions and middle managers’ appropriations of them, regarding what it meant to be a practically wise manager. Second, we discuss a phronetic Identity narrative template, contestable both by organizations and managers, in which people are positioned as questing for...
Danah Boyd - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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city self netWork transnational migrants and online Identity Work
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2014Co-Authors: Jessica Lingel, Mor Naaman, Danah BoydAbstract:This paper uses qualitative interviews with 26 transnational migrants in New York City to analyze socio-technical practices related to online Identity Work. We focus specifically on the use of Facebook, where benefits included keeping in touch with friends and family abroad and documenting everyday urban life. At the same time, many participants also reported experiences of fatigue, socio-cultural tensions and concerns about maintaining a sense of personal privacy. These experiences highlight how transnational practices complicate context collapse, where the geographic dispersal of participants' personal netWorks renders visible conflicts of 'flattened' online netWorks. Our findings also suggest a kind of technology-enabled code-switching, where transnational migrants leverage social media to perform identities that alternate between communities, nationalities and geographies. This analysis informs HCI research on transnationalism and technological practices, as well as the complexities of online Identity Work in terms of shifting social and spatial contexts.
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CSCW - City, self, netWork: transnational migrants and online Identity Work
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing - CSCW '14, 2014Co-Authors: Jessica Lingel, Mor Naaman, Danah BoydAbstract:This paper uses qualitative interviews with 26 transnational migrants in New York City to analyze socio-technical practices related to online Identity Work. We focus specifically on the use of Facebook, where benefits included keeping in touch with friends and family abroad and documenting everyday urban life. At the same time, many participants also reported experiences of fatigue, socio-cultural tensions and concerns about maintaining a sense of personal privacy. These experiences highlight how transnational practices complicate context collapse, where the geographic dispersal of participants' personal netWorks renders visible conflicts of 'flattened' online netWorks. Our findings also suggest a kind of technology-enabled code-switching, where transnational migrants leverage social media to perform identities that alternate between communities, nationalities and geographies. This analysis informs HCI research on transnationalism and technological practices, as well as the complexities of online Identity Work in terms of shifting social and spatial contexts.
James Reveley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Between narration and interaction: Situating first-line supervisor Identity Work
Human Relations, 2009Co-Authors: Simon Down, James ReveleyAbstract:This article examines how frontline managers establish managerial identities. It combines narrational and Goffmanesque conceptions of managerial Identity Work in a longitudinal study of one first-line supervisor at a restructured Australian industrial plant. We argue that, singly, neither self-narration nor dramaturgical performance accounts for the practical discursive Work that constructs managerial `Identity'. We demonstrate that frontline manager Identity Work is an iterative process in which self-narration and dramaturgical performance are almost seamlessly interwoven. The supervisor uses these different Identity Work stratagems simultaneously, and they are processually co-dependent. We conclude, therefore, that organizational scholars who study how persons construct managerial identities should take Goffman's dramaturgical perspective more seriously. It is an indispensible complement to the analysis of Identity narratives, because successful performances undergird managers' attempts to craft stable ...
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between narration and interaction situating first line supervisor Identity Work
Social Science Research Network, 2008Co-Authors: Simon Down, James ReveleyAbstract:This article examines how frontline managers establish managerial identities. It combines narrational and Goffmanesque conceptions of managerial Identity Work in a longitudinal study of one first-line supervisor at a restructured Australian industrial plant. We argue that, singly, neither self-narration nor dramaturgical performance accounts for the practical discursive Work that constructs managerial ‘Identity’. We demonstrate that frontline manager Identity Work is an iterative process in which self-narration and dramaturgical performance are almost seamlessly interwoven. The supervisor uses these different Identity Work stratagems simultaneously, and they are processually co-dependent. We conclude, therefore, that organizational scholars who study how persons construct managerial identities should take Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective more seriously. It is an indispensible complement to the analysis of Identity narratives, because successful performances undergird managers’ attempts to craft stable narrative identities.
Mats Ehrnrooth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Stereotype-based Identity Work in multinational corporations
2016Co-Authors: Alexei Koveshnikov, Eero Vaara, Mats EhrnroothAbstract:The paper advances our understanding of managerial Identity Work in the context of HQ-subsidiary relations. We argue that a key part of this Identity Work is related to cultural stereotypes. On the basis of an analysis of two Finland-based MNCs operating in Russia, the paper elucidates three forms of stereotype-based Identity Work with enabling or constraining power implications. The first form, stereotypical talk, refers to Identity Work whereby managers enact their stereotypical conceptions of ‘the other’ to bolster their self-image and ‘inferiorize’ ‘the other’. The second form, reactive talk, is Identity Work that emerges as a reaction to stereotypical talk whereby managers aim at renegotiating the proposed social arrangement for their own benefit. Finally, the third form, self-reflexive talk, refers to Identity Work whereby managers attempt to go beyond the social arrangement produced through stereotypical and reactive talk by distancing themselves in a self-reflexive manner from essentialist cultural conceptions. Overall, the paper offers an initial attempt to elucidate how stereotype-based Identity Work is used to justify or resist existing power structures and power asymmetries in HQ-subsidiary relations within the MNC.
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Stereotype-Based Managerial Identity Work in Multinational Corporations
Organization Studies, 2016Co-Authors: Alexei Koveshnikov, Eero Vaara, Mats EhrnroothAbstract:The paper advances our understanding of managerial Identity Work in the context of HQ–subsidiary relations. We argue that a key part of this Identity Work is related to cultural stereotypes. On the basis of an analysis of two Finland-based MNCs operating in Russia, the paper elucidates three forms of stereotype-based Identity Work with enabling or constraining power implications. The first form, stereotypical talk, refers to Identity Work whereby managers enact their stereotypical conceptions of ‘the other’ to bolster their self-image and ‘inferiorize’ ‘the other’. The second form, reactive talk, is Identity Work that emerges as a reaction to stereotypical talk whereby managers aim at renegotiating the proposed social arrangement for their own benefit. Finally, the third form, self-reflexive talk, refers to Identity Work whereby managers attempt to go beyond the social arrangement produced through stereotypical and reactive talk by distancing themselves in a self-reflexive manner from essentialist cultura...
Jessica Lingel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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city self netWork transnational migrants and online Identity Work
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2014Co-Authors: Jessica Lingel, Mor Naaman, Danah BoydAbstract:This paper uses qualitative interviews with 26 transnational migrants in New York City to analyze socio-technical practices related to online Identity Work. We focus specifically on the use of Facebook, where benefits included keeping in touch with friends and family abroad and documenting everyday urban life. At the same time, many participants also reported experiences of fatigue, socio-cultural tensions and concerns about maintaining a sense of personal privacy. These experiences highlight how transnational practices complicate context collapse, where the geographic dispersal of participants' personal netWorks renders visible conflicts of 'flattened' online netWorks. Our findings also suggest a kind of technology-enabled code-switching, where transnational migrants leverage social media to perform identities that alternate between communities, nationalities and geographies. This analysis informs HCI research on transnationalism and technological practices, as well as the complexities of online Identity Work in terms of shifting social and spatial contexts.
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CSCW - City, self, netWork: transnational migrants and online Identity Work
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing - CSCW '14, 2014Co-Authors: Jessica Lingel, Mor Naaman, Danah BoydAbstract:This paper uses qualitative interviews with 26 transnational migrants in New York City to analyze socio-technical practices related to online Identity Work. We focus specifically on the use of Facebook, where benefits included keeping in touch with friends and family abroad and documenting everyday urban life. At the same time, many participants also reported experiences of fatigue, socio-cultural tensions and concerns about maintaining a sense of personal privacy. These experiences highlight how transnational practices complicate context collapse, where the geographic dispersal of participants' personal netWorks renders visible conflicts of 'flattened' online netWorks. Our findings also suggest a kind of technology-enabled code-switching, where transnational migrants leverage social media to perform identities that alternate between communities, nationalities and geographies. This analysis informs HCI research on transnationalism and technological practices, as well as the complexities of online Identity Work in terms of shifting social and spatial contexts.
