Exploring Identity: Concepts and Methods

ISBN-13: 9781403989833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str.

Chris Rojek

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.