Organization and Identity

Alison Linstead is Senior Lecturer in Critical Management and Director of the PhD programme in the Department of Management Studies at the University of York. She is the co-author of Thinking Organization (also with Stephen Linstead, Routledge 2005) and has published in several journals on issues including organizational change and poststructuralist feminism.

Exploring identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and in the social sciences, this book focuses on how ideas about identity can be applied to organization and management studies.

Contents. Notes on the Identities of Contributors. Acknowledgments. 1.Organizing Identity Part 1: Confronting Identity: Selves and Others 2. Now Where Was I? Questioning Assumptions of Consistent Identity 3. Theorizing Narrative-Identity: Symbolic Interactionism and Hermeneutics 4. Self and Other in Everyday Existence: A Mystery not a Problem 5. Living a Story and Storying a Life: A Narrative Understanding of the Distributed Self Part 2: Performing Identities: Selves for Others 6. Career as a Project of the Self and Labour Process Discipline 7. Fetish Failures: Interrupting the Subject and the Other 8. The Mission Statement as Epideictic Rhetoric: Celebrating Organizational Identity 9. Other Work: A Dividual Enterprise Part 3: After Identity...?: Selves in Question 10. Beyond Happy Families: A Critical Reevaluation of the Control-Resistance-Identity Triangle 11. Casting the Other to the Ends of the Earth: Marginal Identity in Organization Studies 12. Making Global Subjects: Diasporic Identity as a Media Event 13. Fluid Identities and Ungendering the Future 14. Identity Aesthetics: Asymmetry and the Assault on Order