2008
DOI: 10.1177/1350508407084484
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Re-viewing `Role' in Processes of Identity Construction

Abstract: Although role theory appears to have been largely dismissed from the contemporary critical literature, role is nevertheless a persistent theme in the discourses of organizational actors. This paper argues that it is timely, therefore, to re-view role, particularly as it articulates with the processes of constructing identity. Drawing on three interview segments that evoke a variety of roles, we develop the notion of role as a boundary object (a concept that we have appropriated from the sociology of science an… Show more

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“…Hence, we surmise that a focus on meanings, in particular rolemeanings, as the micro-units that underlie these processes, aids understanding of identity construction in DMs. Moreover, Simpson and Carroll (2008) propose roles as a mechanism for identification, where roles may or may not become partially or even fully internalised as identities. Hence, role-meanings become the meanings constructed to give sense to a role and the micro-units that underlie role identification (see Figure 1).…”
Section: Meanings As the Essence Of Identity Work And Sensemakingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hence, we surmise that a focus on meanings, in particular rolemeanings, as the micro-units that underlie these processes, aids understanding of identity construction in DMs. Moreover, Simpson and Carroll (2008) propose roles as a mechanism for identification, where roles may or may not become partially or even fully internalised as identities. Hence, role-meanings become the meanings constructed to give sense to a role and the micro-units that underlie role identification (see Figure 1).…”
Section: Meanings As the Essence Of Identity Work And Sensemakingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To a great extent this is now valid in the present global context. Following Simpson and Carroll (2008), we define role as an intermediary boundary object that incorporates the notion of identity. In the context of an MNC, the HR roles become global/international and accordingly acquire new dimensions and complexity.…”
Section: Hr Roles and Influencing Factorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…between participant and observer roles in participant-observation, Castellano 2007). However, elsewhere in organizational studies we have seen a shift away from empirical and theoretical concerns with 'role' and an increasing interest in 'identity construction' (Simpson and Carroll 2008;Ibarra and Barbulescu 2010;Dutton et al, 2010). Indeed, examining researcher identity from this perspective has already been considered with respect to the interview as an opportunity for interactional identity work (Cassell 2005) and has prompted discussion of the emotional labour of fieldwork (Down et al 2006).…”
Section: Identity Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I utilize the concept of identity work (Alvesson and Willmott 2002;Sveningsson and Alvesson 2003) to facilitate an exploration of ethnography (and the ethnographer) in a variety of (material and virtual) research spaces. I argue that we can usefully follow the trend within organizational studies more broadly (Simpson and Carroll 2008) and shift from discussing the researcher's 'role' to thinking about the "socially constructed, multiple and shifting character of identities" (Collinson 2003 p. 535). In this paper, these processes are considered as taking place across a variety of (material and virtual) academic and personal spaces, as well as at the research site or in the field.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%