In this article, the authors draw on institutional theories of organizations to account for the
dynamics that shape workers' agency and identity during the construction and the operation …

This chapter reflects on identity construction as a political process in organizational theory.
The authors provide a reassessment of the literature, arguing that such identity perspectives …

Purpose–To examine Hardt and Negri's discussions of immaterial labor in relation to
personal identity and sociality at work in a context of the postmodernization of the global …

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0002764205284796 http://abs. sagepub. com hosted at http://online. sagepub. com verge on …

We investigated the processes involved in forming an organizational identity, which we
studied during the founding of a distinctive new college by using an interpretive, insider …

This study unpacks the construct of theorization–the process by which organizational ideas
become delocalized and abstracted into theoretical models to support their diffusion across …

The issue of workplace identity–how and why employees develop an attachment with and
affinity for aspects of their work environment, and how work and non-work influences interact …

Research on the new managerial regimes has been hampered by its neglect of the question
of human agency—specifically, the nature of workers' responses to the advent of the new …

This essay has been by necessity a gloss of a complex look at the relations of power,
control, and personal identity construction in a workplace. Features of the nature of the work …

This chapter is about three highly intertwined concepts. The first concerns occupational
communities and the work cultures they nourish. The second concerns the work identities …