Exploring identity : concepts and methods / edited by Alison Pullen, Nic Beech, David Sims.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Linstead, Alison, 1971-

Beech, Nic.

Sims, David, 1948 June 23-

Series:

Management, work and organisations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology).

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

xviii, 345 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

The changing nature of organizations and changing definitions of work have led students and scholars alike to consider the nature of identity and question how it informs our current thinking and practices in organizations.

Exploring Identity brings together leading and emerging thinkers from around the world in an exploration of identity as a key concept in understanding the dynamics of organizations and the people who inhabit them. It develops key themes in current research and demonstrates the significance of identity studies to the real world, providing students with an understanding that will help them discover new and better ways of thinking and acting in their own organizational lives.

Exploring Identity is an ideal core textbook for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses focusing on identity and organization, and is essential reading for students on courses in organizational theory-related modules. It also enables PhD students to develop their own approach to their research work, and allows researchers and academics to ensure they are at the cutting edge of their field.

Contents:

Introduction: You, me, us and identity: introducing Exploring Identity / Alison Pullen, Nic Beech, David Sims 1

1 The obscure subject of consumer identity / Michael Saren 11

2 Personal branding and identity: a textual analysis / Cliff Oswick, Maxine Robertson 26

3 The metaphorical construction of organizational identity / Joep P. Cornelissen 44

4 Identification: organizations and structuralisms / Martin Parker 61

5 Identity, surveillance and resistance / Carl Rhodes, Rick Iedema, Hermine Scheeres 83

6 As leadership dies: cases of individual and group identity destruction and construction / Adrian N. Carr, Cheryl A. Lapp 100

7 Identity work, managing and researching / Tony Watson 135

8 Working out: lesbian and gay identity in the workplace / James H. Ward 151

9 Choreographies of identities / Natasha Slutskaya, Stephanie Schreven 170

10 Disidentity / Nceku "Q" Nyathi, Stefano Harney 185

Part 2 Methods

11 Large scale identity research: the potential of causal cognitive mapping / Gail P. Clarkson 201

12 Action research and identity / Julie Wolfram Cox, Bill Cooke 221

13 Identity trajectories in participative organizational research / Paul Hibbert, Robert MacIntosh, Peter McInnes 237

14 Exploring culture and collective identity with the radio ballads / Stephen Linstead 251

15 Identities and interviews / Christine Coupland 274

16 Narrative methods for identity research / Nic Beech, David Sims 288

17 Negotiating identities of consumption: insights from conversation analysis / Nick Llewellyn, Robin Burrow 302

18 Becoming a researcher: gendering the research self / Alison Pullen 316

19 Cartographies of a life / Alexandra Pitsis 334.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781403989833

1403989834

OCLC:

163617189