About the Book
Constructing Identity in and around Organizations is the second volume in Perspectives on Process Organization Studies, a series which explores an emerging approach to the study of organizations that focuses on (understanding) activities, interactions, and change as essential properties of organizations rather than structures and state - an approach which prioritizes activity over product, change over persistence, novelty over
continuity, and expression over determination.The constructing of identities - those processes through which actors in and around organizations claim, accept, negotiate, affirm, stabilize, maintain,
reproduce, challenge, disrupt, destabilize, repair or otherwise relate to their sense of selves and others - has become a critically important topic in the study of organizations. This volume attempts to amplify - and possibly refract - contemporary debates amongst identity scholars that question established notions of identity as "essence", "entity," or "thing". It calls for alternative approaches to understanding identity and its significance in contexts in and around organizations by
conceptualizing it as "process" - that is, being continually under construction. Based in diverse theoretical and philosophical traditions and contexts, contributions by leading scholars to this volume offer
new perspectives on how individual and organizational identities evolve and come to be constructed through ongoing activities and interactions.
Table of Contents:
Majken Schultz, Steve Maguire, Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas: Constructing identity in and around organizations: Introducing the second volume of Perspectives on Organization Studies
Part I: Identity and Organizations
1: Michael G. Pratt: Rethinking Identity Construction Processes In Organizations: Three Questions to Consider
2: Dennis A. Gioia and Shubha Patvardhan: Identity as Process and Flow
3: Mary Ann Glynn and Lee Watkiss: Exploring Cultural Mechanisms of Organizational Identity Construction
4: Jochem J. Kroezen and Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens: Organizational Identity Formation: Processes of Identity Imprinting and Enactment in the Dutch Microbrewing Landscape
5: James V. Wertsch: Narrative Tools and the Construction of Identity
6: Frank Mueller and Andrea Whittle: Villains, Victims and the Financial Crisis: Positioning Identities through Descriptions
7: James Williams: Identity and Time in Gilles Deleuze's Process Philosophy
Part II: General Process Perspectives
8: Philippe Lorino and Benoît Tricard: The Bakhtinian Theory of Chronotope (Time-Space Frame) Applied to the Organizing Process
9: Elden Wiebe, Roy Suddaby and William M. Foster: The Momentum of Organizational Change
10: Simon Grand and Adrian Ackeret: Management Knowledge: A Process View
11: Andrew H. Van de Ven and Harry Sminia: Aligning Process Questions, Perspectives and Explanations
About the Author :
Majken Schultz is Professor of Organization Studies at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School; International Research Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation at Oxford University,
Saïd Business School; and partner in the Reputation Institute. Her research focuses on the construction and expression of identity in theory and practice with a special interest in the interplay between culture, identity, and images, and the implications for corporate branding processes. She has published several books and more than 40 international articles. Haridimos Tsoukas holds the Columbia Ship Management Chair in Strategic Management at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus and is a
Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He obtained his PhD at the Manchester Business School (MBS), University of Manchester, and has worked at MBS, the University
of Essex, the University of Strathclyde, and the ALBA Graduate Business School, Greece. He has published widely in several leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, and Human Relations. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies (2003-2008). Steve Maguire is Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization in the Desautels
Faculty of Management at McGill University. His research focuses on institutional and technological change resulting when commercial, scientific and political struggles intersect around social or environmental issues.; Ann Langley is
Professor of Management at HEC Montréal and Canada research chair in strategic management in pluralistic settings. Her research focuses on strategic change, leadership, innovation and the use of management tools in complex organizations with an emphasis on processual research approaches. She has published over 50 articles and two books.
Review :
`Review from previous edition Praise for the Series:
"As we become more willing to convert reified entities into differentiated streams, the resulting images of process have become more viable and more elusive. Organization becomes organizing, being becomes becoming, construction becomes constructing. But as we see ourselves saying more words that end in "ing," what must we be thinking? That is not always clear. But now, under the experienced guidance of editors Langley and Tsoukas, there is an annual forum that moves us toward continuity and
consolidation in process studies. This book series promises to be a vigorous, thoughtful forum dedicated to improvements in the substance and craft of process articulation."
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Karl E. Weick, Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, University of Michigan, USA
`This series will provide an opportunity for bringing together contributions across different areas so that comparisons can be made and can also provide a space for discussions across fields. Professors Langley and Tsoukas are leaders in the development and use of process approaches. Under their editorship, the series will attract the work and attention of a wide array of distinguished organizational scholars.'
Martha S. Feldman, Johnson Chair for Civic Governance and Public Management, Professor of Social Ecology, Political Science, Business and Sociology, University of California, Irvine, USA
`Perspectives on Process Organization Studies will be the definitive annual volume of theories and research that advance our understanding of process questions dealing with how things emerge, grow, develop, and terminate over time. I applaud Professors Ann Langley and Haridimos Tsoukas for launching this important book series, and encourage colleagues to submit their process research and subscribe to PROS.'
Andrew H. Van de Ven, Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change, University of Minnesota, USA
`The new series - Perspectives on Process Organization Studies - is a timely and valuable addition to the organization studies literature. The ascendancy of process perspectives in recent years has signified an important departure from traditional perspectives on organizations that have tended to privilege either self-standing events or discrete entities.'
Wanda J. Orlikowski, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
