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Patrizia Hoyer
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PublicationMaking Space for Ambiguity: Rethinking Organizational Identification from a Career PerspectiveThis paper argues that organizational identification is more ambiguous than currently depicted in the literature, especially as people try to make sense of their multiple organizational affiliations over the course of their careers. Based on the detailed analysis of ex-consultants' career narratives, and especially the multiple, partly conflicting positioning practices through which they express proximity and/ or distance towards a past and present working context, this study provides a nuanced understanding of how ambiguous organizational identifications arise in the first place. Rather than problematizing these ambiguous identifications as undesirable for organizations and their members, the study aspires to make space for ambiguity and multiplicity by rethinking identification from a career perspective that is sensitive to aspects of temporality and change, thereby providing a more dynamic conceptualization of organizational identification in the contemporary workplace.Type: conference paper
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PublicationLessons in Ecstatic Truth : Learning about Visual Organizational Ethnography from Werner HerzogOrganizational ethnography has a long tradition within management and organization studies. While being established, ethnographic research constantly challenges us to find novel and creative ways to capture the complexities of everyday life. Reflexivity and performativity are notions an ethnographer is supposed to embrace in order to write a good ethnography. The routines and practices of social scientific writing, however, do not make it an easy task to live up to these ideals of good ethnographic work. According to some ethnographers, visual methods have become one promising avenue to create richer ethnographic accounts. Using this discussion as a springboard, this conceptual paper introduces the work of filmmaker Werner Herzog into the context of organizational ethnography. Not only can he act as an aesthetic inspiration for visual ethnographers, but his distinct understanding of the role of documentary films can also provide theoretical stimulation, helping us to rethink the possibility of how to conduct, create and share our research. Like the artist Herzog undermines traditional understandings of film, a Herzogian research approach would end up challenging our common research practices. We hope that an engagement with the work of Werner Herzog will encourage more daring organizational ethnographies and it is our belief that this ultimately will lead to more moving and more relevant research.Type: 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