Identity Matters: Reflections on the Construction of Identity Scholarship in Organization Studies

Alvesson, Mats; Ashcraft, Karen Lee; Thomas, Robyn

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“…Furthermore, the use of the ethnographic method, which included observations and records of the NGI's physical and cultural environment, This political unbalance has led the internal coalitions to exert their authority both opportunistically and cautiously, thus taking advantage of the system's ambiguity. Such ambiguity has opened spaces for incremental, intermittent progress in the development of the geriatric institutional framework, whenever health authorities empowered changes (Alvesson et al, 2008;Mahoney & Thelen, 2010). This paper also describes how the evolution of Chilean society's historical and political context has decisively influenced the development of NGI's identity.…”

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“…The study highlights the relevance of ambiguity in strategy and identity changes brought about by the work of managers in contemporary organizations (Alvesson, 1990(Alvesson, , 2013Alvesson, Ascraft, & Thomas, 2008;Alvesson & Sveningsson, 2003;Gioia, Price, Hamilton, & Thomas, 2010;Hoggett, 2006;McCabe, 2009). Ambiguity is linked to complex hierarchical relationships, imprecise goals, confusing result assessments, and unstable political support from authorities.…”

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“…The purpose of this paper is to examine the phenomenon of ambiguity in the context of the spatial, historical, and political changes experienced by the NGI and Chilean society in recent decades (Alvesson et al, 2008;Rowlinson, Jacques, & Booth, 2009). This study delves into the various forms that ambiguity may assume in the different stages of an identity conversion process.…”

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“…It also explores the organizational strategies that allow keeping a public health institution functioning under high levels of ambiguity. Historical institutionalism, constructivism, and hermeneutics are the main theoretical perspectives employed in this study (Alvesson, 2013;Alvesson et al, 2008;Boje, 2001;Dutton & Dukerich, 1991;Ravasi & Schultz, 2006;Suddaby, Foster, & Mills, 2014).…”

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Ambiguity in the Identity Transformation of Public Health Organizations

Acuña

Sanfuentes

2016

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This study explores the transformations implemented by health authorities in a hospital over the last forty years with the purpose of institutionalizing geriatrics in the Chilean public health system. The transformations have been implemented through a process of identity conversion that had implied high levels of ambiguity due to the contradictory coexistence of the old hospital's identity with the new geriatric practices. These ambiguities are associated with the erratic, precarious support provided by state authorities to the development of the public geriatric framework. Through the handling of images, authorities have paradoxically amplified the achievements of these transformations, thus promoting apparent complacency in internal and external audiences.KEYWORDS | Ambiguity, identity, change, history, organizations. RESUMO Este estudo explora as transformações implementadas por autoridades de saúde em um hospital durante os últimos quarenta anos, com a finalidade de institucionalizar a geriatria no sistema de saúde pública chilena. As transformações foram implementadas por meio de um processo de conversão de identidade que implicou altos níveis de ambiguidade, devido à existência contraditória da identidade do antigo hospital com as novas práticas geriátricas. Estas ambiguidades são associadas ao apoio errático e precário fornecido pelas autoridades do Estado ao desenvolvimento da estrutura geriátrica pública. Através da manipulação de imagens, as autoridades paradoxalmente ampliaram as conquistas destas transformações, promovendo uma aparente complacência nos públicos interno e externo. PALAVRAS-CHAVE |

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Ambiguity in the Identity Transformation of Public Health Organizations

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2016

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“…TPI development is built on the premise that individuals formulate and construct their identities to shape their self-perception on coherent and positive lines (Alvesson, Ashcraft, & Thomas, 2008). Being a dynamic attribute, TPI is responsive to many factors inside and outside the classroom; however, the alignment between PD experiences and TPI development serves as an illuminating process.…”

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Shaping Professional Identity Through Professional Development: A Retrospective Study of TESOL Professionals

Ahmad¹,

Fatmawati²,

Nubli³

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IJEL

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In an educational milieu student learning outcomes are directly related to teacher professional identity (TPI) i.e. improvement in the TPI will bear a direct positive effect on the learners' academic achievements. Current study focuses on the development of TPI of English as a Foreign Language Teacher at English Language Institute (ELI) of a Saudi Arabian university through an in-service Cambridge English Teachers (CET) Professional Development (PD) program (CET-PD). Five determinants of TPI -Knowledge of Teaching Context (KCT), Collegial Collaboration (CC), Teaching Practices (TPs), Teacher Self-Efficacy (TSE), and Teacher Agency (TA)were studied before and after the PD program. Retrospective pretest-posttest research design was employed for addressing the research question: whereas responses on the five determinants were elicited from 120 participants through a self-administered questionnaire before and after the CET-PD program. Due to non-normality of data, a non-parametric statistic test-Wilcoxon signed Rank test was employed to analyze the collected data using SPSS. Results of the study revealed that three determinants of TPI -KCT, TSE, and TPs exhibited larger differences; whereas, for CC the differences were moderate and for TA the differences were minimal. By and large, due to in-service CET-PD program TPI exhibited improvement. The results of the study will be beneficial for teacher trainers to focus more on the teachers' awareness of the learners' and institutional contextual knowledge in a culture embedded in conservative norms. This study is a part of the quantitative phase of an ongoing Ph.D. project which employs mixed method convergent design.

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The View from Organizational Studies

Grant

Nyberg

2011

The Handbook of Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility

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Identity Matters: Reflections on the Construction of Identity Scholarship in Organization Studies

Cited by 793 publications

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Ambiguity in the Identity Transformation of Public Health Organizations

Ambiguity in the Identity Transformation of Public Health Organizations

Shaping Professional Identity Through Professional Development: A Retrospective Study of TESOL Professionals

The View from Organizational Studies

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