Managing Managerial Identities Organizational Fragmentation, Discourse and Identity Struggle

Stefan Sveningsson () and Mats Alvesson ()
Additional contact information
Stefan Sveningsson: Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Postal: Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7080, SE-220 07 Lund, Sweden
Mats Alvesson: Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Postal: Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7080, SE-220 07 Lund, Sweden

No 2003/1, Working Paper Series from Lund University, Institute of Economic Research

Abstract: The study is a case study of managerial identity work, based on an in-depth case of a senior manager and the organizational context in which she works. The paper addresses the interplay between organizational discourses, role expectations, narrative self-identity and identity work. Identity is conceptualized in processual terms as identity work and struggle. The paper illuminates fragmentation as well as integration in the interplay between organizational discourses and identity. It aims to contribute to a processual oriented identity theory and to the methodology of identity studies through showing the advantage of a multi-level intensive study.

Keywords: managerial identity; organizational discourses; role expectations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-04-24
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations Track citations by RSS feed

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhb:lufewp:2003_001

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series from Lund University, Institute of Economic Research
Address: Institutet för Ekonomisk Forskning, Box 7080, SE-220 07 LUND, Sweden
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Elsbeth Andersson ().