Sub-theme 36:

Identity Work and Organization

Chair: Cynthia Hardy

Stephen Fineman
'Getting old': Age work and disrupted identity

Suzanne M. Gagnon and David Collinson
'Corporate cloning' by upsetting identities: A critical analysis of two global leader development programs
 

Round Table (A)

Facilitator: Leisa Sargent

Hanneke Duijnhoven and Myrte Berendse
The conductor narrates: Narratives, security practices and identity work among railway employees

Giulia Selmi
Upsetting sexuality: Sex workers practices to manage identity at work

Round Table (A) Participants:
N. Beech, C. Clarke, I. Kajzer-Mitchell, D. Karreman, P. Keenan, P. McInnes, S. Strehlau

Round Table (B)

Facilitator: Cynthia Hardy

Sierk Ybema
Crisis, change and collective identity talk: Central, distinctive and enduring?

Trine Susanne Johansen
Identities in play: Negotiating selves on corporate web logs

Round Table (B) Participants:
A. Brown, J. Costas, B. Doolin, L. Gurrieri, J. Lok, I. Piette, A. Spicer, M. Saren

Round Table (C)

Facilitator: Robyn Thomas

Marina Biniari
Constructing an entrepreneurial identity: Maverick champions constructing maverick venturing teams

Caroline Essers, Deirdre Tedmanson and Lia Bryant
Upsetting 'others': Narratives at the intersection of gender, ethnicity and entrepreneurship: Turkish Muslim women entrepreneurs in Australia and the Netherlands

Round Table (C) Participants:
A. Diedrich, R. Gasper, K. Kenny, M. Jannssens, A. Mangan, H. Siebers, S. Sinha, K. van Laer

Round Table (D)

Facilitator: Steve Maguire

Franck Burellier and Annick Valette
Hybrid actors and role tensions: How do professional-managers negotiate an identity based compromise?

Claudia Meister-Scheytt, Heidi Möller, Anna Herbolzheimer and Tobias Scheytt
In the change maze: The multiple identities of academic middle managers in processes of rapid change

Round Table (D) Participants:
A. Davies, S. Fineman, J. Ford, N. Harding, R. McDonald, A. Rodríguez, R. Wenglén

Round Table (E)

Facilitator: Stefan Sveningsson

Gianpiero Petriglieri, Jennifer L. Petriglieri and Jack D. Wood
Adaptive and exploratory identity work in an elite MBA

Jonna Louvrier and Annamari Tuori
Interplay between identity constructions and organizing in a French labor union

Round Table (E) Participants:
F. Bastien, D. Collinson, E. Endrissat, S. Gagnon, C. Grey, V. Hope-Hailey, A. Zueva
 

Round Table (F)

Facilitator: Leisa Sargent

Jaco Lok
Exploring the role of identity regulation and identity work in practice (trans)formation and maintenance

Ying Zhang and Peter Keenan
Collective professional identity in the implementation of collaborative strategy: A case study from Scottish community addiction teams

Round Table (F) Participants:
L. Bryant, B. Doolin, H. Duijnhoven, J. Ford, V. Hope-Hailey, D. Karreman, K. Kenny, A. Mangan, C. Meister-Scheytt, T. Scheytt, R. Wenglén

Round Table (G)

Facilitator: Cynthia Hardy

Anna Zueva
Identities and post-acquisition cultural sensemaking

Ingrid Kajzer-Mitchell, Nic Beech and Mike Saren
Non-change as disruption of change-oriented selves: On the elastic qualities of the Swampy Lowland

Round Table (G) Participants:
F. Bastien, A. Brown, D. Collinson, C. Clarke, E. Endrissat, S. Gagnon, T. Johansen, J. Louvrier, S. Sveningsson, A. Tuori, J. Wood

Round Table (H)

Facilitator: Robyn Thomas

Hans Siebers
Upsetting identities at work: Ethnic conflict in organizational context in the Dutch police force

Roz Gasper, Robyn Thomas and Annette Davies
Partners in crime? (Up)Setting identities in collaboration

Round Table (H) Participants:
M. Berendse, M. Biniari, F. Burellier, A. Diedrich, C. Essers, N. Harding, R. McDonald, P. McInnes, J. Petriglieri, A. Valette, S. Ybema

Round Table (I)

Facilitator: Steve Maguire

Lauren Gurrieri
Struggling for a cool identity

Shuchi Sinha and Yiannis Gabriel
'Delhi Belly': Coping with toxicity and immunizing identities in Indian call centres

Round Table (I) Participants:
J. Costas, C. Grey, S. Fineman, M. Janssens, G. Petriglieri, I. Piette, A. Rodríguez, G. Selmi, A. Spicer, S. Strehlau, D. Tedmanson, K. van Laer
 

Chair: Leisa Sargent

Kate Kenny
We are unique: Constructing identification at work

Stefan Sveningsson, Robert Wenglén and Sierk Ybema
Lost and found – Identity work in organizational transitions

Ruth McDonald
Organisational change and ambivalence in primary medical care: Upsetting traditional approaches to professional identity
 

Round Table (J)

Facilitator: Leisa Sargent

Isabelle Piette and François Bastien
Upsetting identities, the micro-processes of identity fortification: Evidence from Anti-Smoking Bill 112 in Montréal, Québec, Canada

Round Table (J) Participants:
M. Biniari, F. Burellier, H. Duijnhoven, A. Davies, S. Gagnon, L. Gurrieri, P. Keenan, T. Scheytt, A. Spicer, A. Tuori, R. Wenglén

Round Table (K)

Facilitator: Cynthia Hardy

Bill Doolin and Judy Motion
Upsetting scientists: Identity work in biotechnology organisations

Andréa Leite Rodríguez and Suzane Strehlau
Unmasking the amigo secreto: Identity work through compliance and resistance in a Christmas ritual

Round Table (K) Participants:
J. Costas, E. Endrissat, T. Johansen, I. Kajzer-Mitchell, J. Lok, M. Saren, G. Selmi, S. Sinha, A. Valette, J. Wood, S. Ybema

Round Table (L)

Facilitator: Robyn Thomas

Jackie Ford and Nancy Harding
The materiality of identity: Bollas's 'Personal Idiom', embodiment and constructions of the self

Koen van Laer and Maddy Janssens
The workplace experiences of second-generation minority professionals: Upsetting practices and hybrid identity work

Round Table (L) Participants:
M. Berendse, N. Beech, L. Bryant, S. Fineman, R. Gasper, K. Kenny, G. Petriglieri, H. Siebers, S. Sveningsson, A. Zueva

Round Table (M)

Facilitator: Steve Maguire

Andreas Diedrich
From ethnic identity to professional identity – The production of difference in organizing

Caroline Clarke, Andrew Brown and Veronica Hope-Hailey
Discourse and identity: Discipline and resistance in the making of work identities

Round Table (M) Participants:
D. Collinson, C. Essers, C. Grey, D. Karreman, J. Louvrier, A. Mangan, R. McDonald, P. McInnes, C. Meister-Scheytt, J. Petriglieri, D. Tedmanson
 

Chair: Robyn Thomas

Jana Costas and Chris Grey
Identity in the future tense

Nada Endrissat, André Spicer and Dan Karreman
Practices of interactional identity work: The case of Swiss physicians

Peter A. McInnes and Anita Mangan
The interweaving of identity: Reconsidering the other in narratives of resistance
 

Chair: Steve Maguire
 

Final Discussion