Mapping the Complexity of Shifting Organizational Identifications : A Critical-Discursive Reading
ISSN
0065-0668
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2014-08-05
Author(s)
Abstract
By introducing positioning theory to the analysis of organizational identification, in this paper I attempt to move its current conceptualizations out of a domain that is problematically associated with functionalist and cognitive framings. Instead I suggest a critical-discursive understanding of organizational identification which takes note of the limiting, complex and potentially shifting attachments that people can have towards an organization. More concretely, by showing six positioning practices that former management consultants engage in for expressing different forms of identification towards a past or present working context, this paper indicates the emancipatory potential that lays within these positioning practices as they invite different subject positions that either help to reinforce or escape imperatives for organizational identification.
Language
English
Keywords
Organizational identification
Positioning Theory
Subject Positions
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings. 2014
Publisher
Academy of Management
Event Title
74th Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM) 2014 "The Power of Words"
Event Location
Philadelphia, PA
Event Date
01-05.08.2014
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
233567