Making space for ambiguity: Rethinking organizational identification from a career perspective
Journal
Scandinavian Journal of Management
ISSN
0956-5221
ISSN-Digital
1873-3387
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2016-09
Author(s)
Abstract (De)
This 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 interplay of 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 by rethinking identification from a career perspective which is sensitive to aspects of temporality and change, thereby providing a more dynamic conceptualization of organizational identification in the contemporary workplace.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Refereed
No
Publisher
Elsevier
Publisher place
Amsterdam [u.a.]
Volume
32
Number
3
Start page
166
End page
177
Pages
12
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
Patrizia.Hoyer@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
249150
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