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Managing managerial identities: Organizational fragmentation, discourse and identity struggle

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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.

Publishing year

2003

Language

English

Pages

1163-1193

Publication/Series

Human Relations

Volume

56

Issue

10

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Business Administration
  • Economics and Business

Keywords

  • narrative
  • identity struggle
  • discourse
  • identity
  • managerial

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0018-7267