Exploring Identity
Concepts and Methods
Published on 19. November 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-4039-8983-3 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring Identity brings together leading 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.
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Series
Edition
2007
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
527 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-8983-3 (9781403989833)
DOI
10.1057/9781137020284
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
ALISON PULLEN works at The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and holds an Honorary Fellowship at The University of Bristol, UK.
NIC BEECH is Professor of Management at St Andrews University, UK, and Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, UK.
DAVID SIMS is Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Associate Dean, and Director of the Centre for Leadership, Learning and Change at Cass Business School, City University, London, UK.
NIC BEECH is Professor of Management at St Andrews University, UK, and Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, UK.
DAVID SIMS is Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Associate Dean, and Director of the Centre for Leadership, Learning and Change at Cass Business School, City University, London, UK.
Content
Introduction: You, Me, Us and Identity: Introducing Exploring Identity.- PART I: CONCEPTS The Obscure Subject of Consumer Identity; M.Saren.- Identity and Personal Branding; C.Oswick & M.Robertson.- The Metaphorical Construction of Organizational Identity; J.Cornelissen.- Identification: Organizations and Structuralisms; M.Parker.- Control, Resistance and Surveillance; C.Rhodes, R.Iedema & H.Scheeres.- As Leadership Dies: Cases of Individual and Group Identity Destruction and Construction; A.Carr & C.Lapp.- Identity Work, Managing and Researching; T.Watson.- Working Out: Lesbian and Gay Identity in the Workplace; J.Ward & D.Winstanley.- Choreographies of Identities; N.Slutskaya & S.Schreven.- Disidentity; S.Harney & N.Nyathi.- PART II: METHODS Large Scale Identity Research and Cognitive Mapping; G.Clarkson.- Action Research and Identity; J.Wolfram-Cox & B.Cooke.- Identity Trajectories in Participative Organizational Research; P.Hibbert, R.MacIntosh & P.McInnes.- Exploring Collective Identity through Ethnography and Music; S.Linstead.- Interviews and Identity; C.Coupland.- Narrative Methods for Identity Research; N.Beech & D.Sims.- Negotiating Identities of Consumption: Insights from Conversation Analysis; N.Llewellyn & R.Burrow.- Gendering the Research Self; A.Pullen.- The Cartography of a Life; A.Pitsis.