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Patrizia Hoyer
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Hoyer
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Patrizia
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Scandinavian Journal of ManagementVolume: 32Issue: 3
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PublicationType: conference paper
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PublicationMapping the Complexity of Shifting Organizational Identifications : A Critical-Discursive ReadingBy 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.Type: conference paper
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PublicationThe Show Must Go On: Ex-Consultants Perpetuating Discourses of Elitism into the Post-Exit ArenaMany graduates from leading universities and business schools fiercely compete for a position in the so-called gold-collar industry, where prestigious companies such as investment banks, law firms and management consultancies advertise to be an ideal springboard for a promising future career. By taking a critical stance on the control mechanisms prevalent in these industries, and particularly in the context of management consultancies, this paper will draw attention to the discursive regulation of employee identities that is achieved through constructing an image of elite. Given that management consultants on average spend only a couple of years in the consulting business though, it could be argued that a critical concern with control issues in this context is somewhat overrated. Yet, as I will illustrate in this paper, these forms of discursive identity control may be more powerful and enduring than currently acknowledged. By zooming in on the identity constructions of former management consultants who have left the consultancy and started a career in a different work environment, the paper will show that dominant and identity shaping consulting discourses are often perpetuated into the new working context, thereby allowing the effects of discursive identity regulations to stretch far into the post-exit arena.Type: conference paper
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PublicationType: presentation