Exploring Identity

Concepts and Methods
Herausgeber: Beech, Nic; Sims, David; Pullen, Alison

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Produktbeschreibung

"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.

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This book brings together leading thinkers from around the world to explore 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, providing students with an understanding that will help them discover new and better ways of thinking and acting in their organizational lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL / Macmillan Education
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9781403989833
• ISBN-10: 1403989834
• Artikelnr.: 22709614

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.